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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9806602, member: 2844"]I couldn't read everything you wrote (ADD etc), but I guess the question is whether it is a French gold spoon or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me it looks very chunky and rough around the edges to be a French ca 1800 gold spoon. Crown and fleur-de-lys marks were favourites of Hanau, and they have been known to use a rooster mark.</p><p>So I would say Hanau is likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller considered Dutch. 19th century Dutch silversmiths also faked marks, but afaik those were 17th-18th century Dutch marks, not ca 1800 French marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9806602, member: 2844"]I couldn't read everything you wrote (ADD etc), but I guess the question is whether it is a French gold spoon or not. To me it looks very chunky and rough around the edges to be a French ca 1800 gold spoon. Crown and fleur-de-lys marks were favourites of Hanau, and they have been known to use a rooster mark. So I would say Hanau is likely. The seller considered Dutch. 19th century Dutch silversmiths also faked marks, but afaik those were 17th-18th century Dutch marks, not ca 1800 French marks.[/QUOTE]
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