Another spoon I cant ID. Rogers Nickel Silver.

[RyanOShea]

Another spoon I can't ID. Rogers Nickel Silver.


I dug this spoon in an old part of town not to long ago. First look at it. It appeared to be an old copper spoon no big deal. So I kept it for scrap metal as I do all copper. However. Today. I pulled it out of our junk finds scrap metals bin. Than it hit me. When have I ever seen a plain copper spoon? I have never seen a copper spoon. If it is copper it must have been plated. And it might be old. So. I took some steel wool. And just cleaned up the name on the spoon. It reads.
"ROGERS NICKEL SILVER". So. What is it? What is Nickel Silver? Does anyone know the company? How old? I tried to google it. I got a name. But no clue as to how old these are. And what on earth nickel Silver is. If the base metal was nickel....why is it copper colored? And where did all the plating go? Its also a very thin spoon. And the patina suggests its been in the ground quite a while. Considering where I dug it. I am going to go a head and say its vintage....

Any help on the Company. And Nickel Silver. Please comment. Thanks guys.

 

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Re: Another spoon I can't ID. Rogers Nickel Silver.

http://www.centennialantiques.com/1847Rogers.html

 

[RyanOShea]

Re: Another spoon I can't ID. Rogers Nickel Silver.

http://www.centennialantiques.com/1847Rogers.html

Interesting. I wonder how old this one is. Its nothing special. In fact. Its very plain. And has no designs. There is no trace of a silver plating on it at all as you can see. Just brown and green. From what I gathered. The RNS wares were nothing to great until they perfected the silver plating process in the 1840's. Now, I did find a spoon and I had it dated to exactly 1879 that was in far better shape. There was still 90% of the silver plate on it. Just a few patches that had worn off. I dug the 1879 about six inches. This last spoon was much deeper as I recall. Not that its older. I see the company name is still in use today? Wish it had a ID # of some kind on it. These are the finds I like to find. The ones I have to really work to uncover its story. Though. im not a spoon guy.
Thanks for sharing the link. I will see what else I can find on it.