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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4537126, member: 111&quot;]I was on my phone last night, so was a bit limited - to clarify, the reason I said it was &#039;typically&#039; called Floral Series No. 4 is that doesn&#039;t seem to be a designation used by Watson, haven&#039;t seen it in a Watson catalog, nor in retailer catalogs or ads - Turner&#039;s &#039;American Silver Flatware 1837-1910 (1972) designated Floral Series 1 through 4 by their basic design elements, and it may have just been his own identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>Watson produced numerous different floral, fruit, etc. designs, only a few were part of a birthflower series like yours, the designs did vary by the piece produced, and so the dies were cut accordingly - yours is an orange/citrus spoon.&nbsp; You may find this design as No. 10, since both Replacements and Sterling Flatware Fashions show several other &#039;series&#039; (again, haven&#039;t found indication these numbers were ever assigned by the manufacturer), and just for more confusion, sometimes the same motifs show up under different series numbers, and one shows handles with clearly different basic design elements as being part of the same series.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your spoon is shown here in a 1913 Watson catalog (three other size spoons in the same series shown elsewhere), along with different floral and fruit designs:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401301[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the page from Turner showing series 1 through 4:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401302[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These two clips show some of the different designs identified as the same series - have no idea of why:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401303[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]401304[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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