Help dating silver spoon

[FriscoT06]

Whenever I find something I really like, I love to try to find out all I can about it. This is a silver spoon bowl flattened to perhaps make a windchime or something. What I want to know most is when it was made. Only a bit of the pattern and a single "A" inspector's stamp? is left. It is silver, and I assume sterling. It weighs 27 grams, and I assume other measurements won't help because it's been hammered flat. It was found at an old demolished homesite, 15 feet from an Ingraham clock that was made between 1881-85, as well as near a brass trunk nameplate that could be on either side of a few decades of the turn of the century. If anyone can get a maker off of that stamp, I can probably find a pattern and date it from there. Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

DR.ÖTEK Metal Detector, Waterproof Gold Detector, Pinpoint & Terrain Modes, Professional Metal Detector - Grab it through Amazon!

[Icewing]

You might try this.
Silver Pattern Identification

 

[FriscoT06]

Ha! It's Gorham Buttercup pattern! I was checking the top twenty sellng patterns of all time to see if I could get lucky and that's what it was, made since 1899. It's hilarious because I found some of this pattern in a thrift a recently, and it's still the only pattern I have ever found! here's the bottom of a fork nline- that should match closely the bottom of my spoon lol. Still don't know why the flattened one I have has an "A" stamp tho.

 

[FriscoT06]

Probably one of their table/serving/soup spoon sizes

 

[FriscoT06]

The stamps usually denote a weight or size. Don't know what A stands for tho.