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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 9605547, member: 111&quot;]Hello and welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is American coin.&nbsp; Family &#039;histories&#039; are often mistaken, even if they were in Georgia in 1838, these spoons weren&#039;t there then, the pattern wasn&#039;t introduced until 1850.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The only connection between Ivory Hall and the unidentified &#039;R.T &amp; CO.&#039; is that their stamp was found on a piece bearing a &#039;crown&#039; maker&#039;s mark attributed to Ivory Hall.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As said, so far as I know, this mark remains unidentified, but is almost certainly a Northeastern US retailer.&nbsp; The majority of silvermiths were wholesalers, and some, like Ivory Hall, were also retailers, selling their production to the public as well as to the trade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is Albert Coles&#039; &#039;Jenny Lind&#039; pattern, just doesn&#039;t bear his marks (I have a large Coles &#039;Jenny Lind&#039; spoon without any marks).&nbsp; A very popular pattern, it was copied by other makers with some variations - it is not a copy of an older British pattern, and the only British pattern found in Pickford&#039;s &#039;Silver Flatware: English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980&#039; (1983) bearing any resemblance is a scarce mid 19th century &#039;Olive&#039; variant by Chawner called &#039;Wellington&#039;.&nbsp; So far as I know there hasn&#039;t been a patent found for &#039;Jenny Lind&#039;, though there are later Coles patents - not all patterns were patented, and can&#039;t see any reason it wouldn&#039;t have been his design.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>McGrew&#039;s &#039;Manufacturers&#039; Marks on American Coin Silver&#039; (2004) shows these pseudo-marks (G/bust/lion) as unidentified, but belonging to a Troy, NY maker based on the majority of their retailers being based in Troy.&nbsp; So in addition to the &#039;R.T &amp; CO.&#039; stamp being found alone, it&#039;s also found on pieces produced in New Hampshire and New York, and could be found on pieces by other makers as well...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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