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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 113651, member: 59"]Welcome, Jon! As you have no doubt noted, what appears on your spoon to be the letter G in the segment of the Registry Mark for the year (using the 1868-1883 Legend) does not appear in any table for deciphering the marks that I have looked at. This leads me to think that the letter is not a G at all, but rather something else that has been squashed or otherwise defaced. Figuring out what was originally intended is going to require a much closer look at the mark than you have been able to achieve in the picture you attached. Does your camera have a "macro" function (usually designated with a tulip flower) or can you take the picture through the lens of a magnifying glass? I think what Clutteredcloset has said about "US hallmarks" may be a bit misleading. The US has no "hallmarking system." However, the A1 which appears on the handle was in common usage on silverplated items in the US back when your spoon was designed to indicate that the thickness of the plating was "standard." Not that any one or any organization actually performed tests to prove it and no real standard was established under any government or "guild. I believe that this A1 may have also been used by silver plate manufacturers in the UK, although it may not have been as common as it was here.[/QUOTE]