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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3825136, member: 111&quot;]Started keeping an eye out for an affordable American coin silver spoon by John Athan Waite (w.1762-1817) well over 15 years ago, he and his brother William were silversmith nephews of Joseph Wait (b.1697), one of my direct ancestors through my paternal grandmother&#039;s line. </p><p><br /></p><p>Had one of his spoons in my eBay watchlist for about two years, but its &#039;Buy-It-Now&#039; price was way too high (finally sold yesterday, the &#039;best offer&#039; half of the BIN, and still much more than I&#039;d pay).&nbsp; A couple of weeks ago, another came up for a reasonable price, but questions about its condition, etc. bothered me, and contacting the seller only resulted in a curt answer regarding the most obvious issue - despite having several watchers, it sold at the opening bid. </p><p><br /></p><p>So once again, did a google search for another spoon, and surprisingly, one turned up at Replacements, it looked good and was reasonably priced, so snapped it up and it arrived today - my first purchase ever from them, and I&#039;m very happy with it, to my eye, better than either of the other two I&#039;d been following.&nbsp; It&#039;s a good sturdy piece, about 8.5 inches long, 53 grams, with a nice period engraving, a sweet V-drop, one tiny ding in the bowl, and some tip wear to the bowl that I&#039;d expect to see - honest wear no problem for me...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317914[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317915[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317916[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317917[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From Belden&#039;s &#039;Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection&#039; (1980):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From WEV&#039;s wonderful &#039;American Silversmiths&#039; site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/genealogy/makers/silversmiths/31205.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/genealogy/makers/silversmiths/31205.htm" rel="nofollow">http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/genealogy/makers/silversmiths/31205.htm</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]317911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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