Spoon/fork handle markings??

[autographcollector11]

Any idea if this was a spoon or fork? Also, hard to see but there is a TE and an S. The S is separate and in a circle. There are 2 other letters to the left of TE but hard to see. I think one is an I. Any idea of age? From Illinois.

 

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[autographcollector11]

Update. The initials are TB followed by an S in a circle. I know nothing about older silverware so anything you can tell me about possible age, metal content, etc would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Roger Mn.]

You need to clean it with comet powder.Wet it and rub comet power on it with your fingers and take an
other picture and post it.
It looks like TR to me. This could be and i'm not positive.

Type in search bar --- Thomas Revere ,1789 Boston Mass.

 

[autographcollector11]

Rodger dodger-it is TR. it's hard to get a better image. This was found in northeast Illinois. I'm guessing late 1800s piece-but only a guess

 

[ironhorse]

The pewter flatware handle you have has pseudo hallmarks; these marks are fantasy marks, that is, it was produced to resemble hallmarks on similar silver pieces

 

[autographcollector11]

Thanks. Any idea when this dates to?

 

[ironhorse]

Thanks. Any idea when this dates to?

I'm thinking its a Victorian era thing,,,1830s on maybe

 

[Roger Mn.]

Look for TR on Here. Also after the TR on your spoon it looks like a 1 S or it could be 15 for 1815.

Index of Initial Marks

 

[autographcollector11]

Rodger Dodger. Looks to be TR as you said. The other symbol is an S in a circle for sure.
I wonder what the S means?

 

[Roger Mn.]

Rodger Dodger. Looks to be TR as you said. The other symbol is an S in a circle for sure.
I wonder what the S means?

I thought there was a 1 in front of the S. Not positive . Could mean silver plated.

 

[Roger Mn.]

Rodger Dodger. Looks to be TR as you said. The other symbol is an S in a circle for sure.
I wonder what the S means?

I thought there was a 1 in front of the S. Not positive . Could mean silver plated.
To me it looks like 15 the 5 is a 5 and not a s .

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

The initials are not ‘TB’, nor ‘TR’ and those are not pewter marks. The initials are ‘TE’ as the OP initially thought, with the ‘E’ disguised by some crud from corrosion that has formed around it. The two initials are part of one of many variations of marks used by John Yates (later John Yates & Sons) of Birmingham, England. He used all kinds of unusually spaced and sized letters in cartouches to represent his name.

Yates was active at 38 Coleshill Street (1852) from the Electro and Albata Plate Works and then at Pritchett Street (by 1856). He used a number of different base metal alloy imitations of silver, usually with additional silver-plating, and held various patents or trademarks for ‘Albata Plate’, ‘Virginian Silver’, ‘Silvern’ and ‘Silver Ash’. He also used ‘Crown Metal’ and ‘Britannia Metal’.