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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 5244942, member: 111&quot;]Popping in because it seems to be getting a bit complicated here - this is not a particularly uncommon form in Europe as well as the US, might be described as for stuffing, basting, stew, porridge, etc. - sizes typically run around 12 to 15 inches long, give or take a bit.&nbsp; The prick-engraved &#039;1769&#039; is fine, though any engraving is not necessarily a reliable date of manufacture, and the lack of assay office marks not a problem, it bears a maker&#039;s mark, and other marks that are unclear.&nbsp; I&#039;d find the use of sterling quality silver a bit anomalous, would typically be lower (excepting British or French made), and the threaded drop is odd on this spoon, perhaps the swage for a threaded fiddle spoon was used.&nbsp; Did the pawn shop test by XRF?</p><p><br /></p><p>This spoon is almost certainly Northern European, my personal guess would be Danish, though it could certainly be from elsewhere - this may be your maker, Hans Christian Boysen from Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein (Danish in 1769), but a source shows him as not gaining his citizenship until 1778, so he shouldn&#039;t have been working yet in 1769 - perhaps it was done to commemorate an earlier event *shrug*.&nbsp; There are huge numbers of unidentified/undocumented makers, and online sources are limited, there&#039;s good chance that this maker might never be positively identified...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414824[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]414825[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just following up on my guess of Danish, where they would be described as either a &#039;grødske&#039; (porridge spoon) or &#039;potageske&#039; (stew spoon), here is an old thread on 925-1000, unfortunately the image of the spoon is long gone, but the discussion interesting:</p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34349" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34349" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34349</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This piece, of similar size and form, bears Copenhagen hallmarks from 1778:</p><p><a href="https://www.lundinantique.com/stort.asp?selbinr=391972&amp;T2=westrup&amp;vissolgt=on" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lundinantique.com/stort.asp?selbinr=391972&amp;T2=westrup&amp;vissolgt=on" rel="nofollow">https://www.lundinantique.com/stort.asp?selbinr=391972&amp;T2=westrup&amp;vissolgt=on</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another from a Danish dealer, bearing unidentified marks:</p><p><a href="https://www.danamantique.com/stort.asp?language=44&amp;selbinr=343434&amp;kukat=7492&amp;valuta=USD" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.danamantique.com/stort.asp?language=44&amp;selbinr=343434&amp;kukat=7492&amp;valuta=USD" rel="nofollow">https://www.danamantique.com/stort.asp?language=44&amp;selbinr=343434&amp;kukat=7492&amp;valuta=USD</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414826[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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