✅ SOLVED Need Help on British?? Sterling Mark

[cambria09]

Hello All. I dug this spoon a few days ago with Btoots at an old home site that has yielded many nice items going back to the 1880's or so.

What can you tell me about these marks? It has a lion, anchor, and some kind of seal on it plus an "E" near the spoon end.

Thanks for any info and Good Luck out there. C9

 

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[jewelerguy]

I'm confused. What I'm looking up shows that the standard mark on your spoon is facing the wrong direction, and an anchor mark should indicate Birmingham, but the letter for the date code doesn't match anything that would jive with the patent date

 

[jewelerguy]

I have a feeling this is an American made spoon with 'British looking' marks to give the consumer a feeling that it's 'fancy'

 

[A2coins]

nice puece of silver either way

 

[cambria09]

I have a feeling this is an American made spoon with 'British looking' marks to give the consumer a feeling that it's 'fancy'[/QUOTE

Hello jeweleryguy. That's too rite...make's it of more interest in a way. Thanks for the reply. C9

 

[stevengugas]

Maybe not English

The lion mark designates Sterling and the anchor may or may not be English. An anchor was also used by the Gorham Sterling Silver company, an American company that was very well known. They made flatware etc out of Rhode Island. Usually there is a fancy, old English G if it is Gorham. You can check out Gorham on Google as well as seeing if any of their Sterling had an E associated with it. Very nice piece

 

[cambria09]

nice puece of silver either way

Hello A2coins. Yep...thanks for the comment...it looked REAL good coming out of the hole...sounded pretty damn good too! Happy diggin'! C9

 

[cambria09]

The lion mark designates Sterling and the anchor may or may not be English. An anchor was also used by the Gorham Sterling Silver company, an American company that was very well known. They made flatware etc out of Rhode Island. Usually there is a fancy, old English G if it is Gorham. You can check out Gorham on Google as well as seeing if any of their Sterling had an E associated with it. Very nice piece

Hello SG. That makes sense, the last image looks like a "G". Nice research and reply. Good Luck out there. C9

 

[jewelerguy]

The lion mark designates Sterling and the anchor may or may not be English. An anchor was also used by the Gorham Sterling Silver company, an American company that was very well known. They made flatware etc out of Rhode Island. Usually there is a fancy, old English G if it is Gorham. You can check out Gorham on Google as well as seeing if any of their Sterling had an E associated with it. Very nice piece

I didn't even think about Gorham. That's a good possibility.

 

[jewelerguy]

The lion mark designates Sterling and the anchor may or may not be English. An anchor was also used by the Gorham Sterling Silver company, an American company that was very well known. They made flatware etc out of Rhode Island. Usually there is a fancy, old English G if it is Gorham. You can check out Gorham on Google as well as seeing if any of their Sterling had an E associated with it. Very nice piece

I didn't even think about Gorham. That's a good possibility.

following steven's clue, I did some more looking and it is indeed Gorham, a pattern called 'buttercup'

 

[steelheadwill]

That ud be a greencheck, thanks all

 

[ARC]

Gorham.
"Buttercup".

 

[Robot]

Gorham Mfg. Company

In 1853 Gorham changed the Lion Logo from facing left to facing right, so we know it is not older than that.

On close inspection your spoon shows a "Patent 1900" on it so presumably it was made after that date.

GORHAM HISTORY​

The origins of Gorham are in 1831 when the firm of Jabez Gorham was joined by Henry L. Webster in the Gorham & Webster.
In its history the firm assumed these names: Gorham & Webster (1831-1837), Gorham Webster & Price (1837.1841), J. Gorham & Son (1841-1850), Gorham & Thurber (1850-1852), Gorham & Company (1852-1865), Gorham Mfg. Company (1865-1961), Gorham Corp. (from 1961).
The company moved into a new headquarters in Providence, RI in 1890 as employment surpassed 500, and in 1905 they opened a retail outlet on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Throughout the latter half of the 19th century and into the 20th, Gorham attracted some of the best designers and silver artisans in the world.
Their rapidly expanding business of doing one-of-a-kind pieces on commission for major world figures and events expanded their profile and introduced Gorham to an international clientele.
The decline of Gorham began in 1967, when the company was purchased by Textron, a move that some critics claim decreased quality due to management's lack of understanding of Gorham's specialty, producing high-quality sterling silverware and holloware.
Textron sold the company to Dansk International Designs in 1989.
Brown-Forman Corporation acquired Gorham from Dansk in 1991 and in 2005 resold the unit to Department 56 in the Lenox holdings transaction, with the resulting company renamed as Lenox Group.
However, in 2009 Lenox Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and it was subsequently acquired by Clarion Capital Partners, now operating under the name Lenox Corporation, which has three operating divisions, Lenox, Dansk and Gorham.
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