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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 35855, member: 111&quot;]That&#039;s one of the &#039;mystery letters&#039; that appear occasionally on Gorham&#039;s flatware, some are weight codes, but not sure if anyone has really firmly identified the meaning of the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>The feather/leaf spoon is a Fessenden preserve spoon - one of my first books on silver, bought in the late &#039;70s, was Turner, believe that&#039;s where the Gorham &#039;Leaf&#039; pattern ID originated.&nbsp; Have seen dozens of that handle over the years, never any with a Gorham mark or any other maker&#039;s mark (unusual for Gorham), if they did make a pattern like that, they didn&#039;t make many pieces...</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a spoon with a similar bowl in Fessenden&#039;s &#039;Alice&#039; pattern, from an 1896 retailer&#039;s catalog:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]9027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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