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Hello everyone

Picked up this pendant on flea today. Kind of picked my curiosity.
Can someone identify maker mark and date this pendant. I was thinking 30's but what do I k ow.

 

Where are you, in the USA? If so I think it couldn't be older than mid 1950s. Before that makers patented their designs. After that they were either copyrighted with a circle C or registered with a circle R.

 

Yup in US, neat New York.

 

Made from a flatware handle. Wallace, Grande Baroque, 1941

https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/Wallace3.html

 

Looks like it's a copied lost wax casting.

 

Not that pendants, the ubiquitous rings, and other jewelry wasn't/isn't made from flatware, but Wallace produced these flatware pattern pendants in a number of their popular patterns, always marked with the copyright symbol, the Wallace 'W', and 'STER.', stamped upside-down as they hung - if I recall correctly, 1970s...

~Cheryl

 

Post-1955 no matter what, with the copyright symbol on there. Cutlery jewelry became really popular among the late 60s hippie crowd and it's been made off and on ever since. This could be a new piece made from a vintage fork/spoon or a vintage piece made from a vintage fork/spoon.

 

Not that it has anything to do with this pendant, which is an original item produced by Wallace silversmiths (with that particular trademark not in use until the mid '50s) - but the copyright symbol came into use in 1909, in reference to silverware, the patterns or designs were often patented and still can be, but they were also copyrighted, and while the use of the symbol on old silver would be unusual, the word was stamped in some form, one of the earliest coming to mind Gorham's 1888 'Versailles' pattern.

This not a new or vintage piece made from a piece of flatware, it is an item produced by Wallace for the commercial market, it shows up in several different Wallace patterns, some as late as the early 1970s - and as said the location of the eccentric marks is atypical for flatware. The popularity of spoon rings and their ilk in the 1960s and '70s didn't go unnoticed by the American silverware manufacturers, and they produced flatware jewelry in both sterling and silverplate - they were advertised by retailers ranging from high-end jewelers and department stores down to discount stores, one of the makers (Towle, I think) would even have events where they would make the rings on site in your chosen pattern. In the early '70s, I saw a Gorham magazine ad offering sterling birth-flower spoon rings, showed it to my Mom and she ordered it for my birthday, still have it (and the full set of marks are also atypically placed).

~Cheryl

 

Just wanted to see it in smaller form!!!
SO LOVELY!!!!


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I'd forgotten about those made-by-manufacturer spoon ring (etc) pieces. I was only a kid when they came and went.