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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 44690, member: 59&quot;]Sterlingflatwarefashions shows this mark as belonging to a John Stewart, working in NYC in the 1790&#039;s and in Baltimore circa 1810.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Silversmiths/SSS11.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Silversmiths/SSS11.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Silversmiths/SSS11.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Said John Stewart is not listed in WEV&#039;s genealogical study of smiths and associated occupations, though, so I don&#039;t have anything else to tell you than what&#039;s on SFF. Normally, pieces made in this timeframe would be &quot;coin.&quot; However, Baltimore was an early adopter of the sterling standard. I&#039;ll need to do a bit more searching to see if the 10:15 has any bearing on fineness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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