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Message:: [QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 106457, member: 111"]Shuddering at the the steel wool, explains so much... Have looked at this thread several times, on three different monitors, partially because I'm frustrated at being unable to make out the mark to the left of 'A.J.M.', but also because every time, to my eye, the spoon looks like worn silverplate on nickel silver (nysølv, alpacca), but of course pictures can be deceptive. Mostly, I am curious about what reference source tells you that Denmark didn't have alpacca in the 1920s?  Most Danish electroplate from that era would have used it as a base metal, as on the little 2⅝"/6.6cm salt spoon from my Mom's collection, posted below.  In the engraved 'Empire' pattern, with the name 'Mikkeline' engraved on the back, it bears the Danish two-tower silverplate mark used from the 1890s into the 1930s, as well as the Københavns Ske-Fabrik 'Absalon' mark - there is only the tiniest area of wear on the bowl's heel, revealing the very faint yellowish cast of the nickel silver. ~Cheryl Please forgive the hastily done pics: [ATTACH=full]26819[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]26821[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]