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663   $200

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Teaspoon with oval-end fiddle handle, flared shoulders, feathered script mono E B on front; 5-3/8" long, excellent condition. Peabody worked first in Fayetteville, NC, beginning in 1823, and by 1836, according to B. Caldwell's "Silversmiths in Tennessee," he was working in Nashville. The shape of Peabody's fiddle is interesting -- perhaps not unique, but well formed, and an interesting shape to hold and contemplate.

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686   $75

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Forward-tipt fiddle handle, flared shoulders, feathered script mono T C D E on front; 6" long. Condition is excellent. This is probably a rare mark - i.e., not often seen. Shmedtie is listed in the Sept.-Oct., 1989, issue of Silver magazine as having a shop at 445 7th St.

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675   Ea. $75, Pair $125

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Downturned fiddle handles, tiny pointed shoulders, reverse tipt, feathered script mono F C G on front; 5-3/8" long. Tiny bit of tipwear, otherwise fine.

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346   $145

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Mustard ladle, c1860 - pinched-waist fiddle handle, no shoulders, feathered script mono M S A S on reverse; 5-3/4" long. Condition is excellent.

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680   Ea. $50

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Joseph W. Cary is cited in new book by Norman Mack--"Missouri's Silver Age." Mack says that Cary moved his jewelry store from Alton, Ill., to St. Louis ca 1870-75. These spoons have pinched-waist fiddle handles, pointed shoulders with feathered script mono E C S; length is 6-1/8", and condition is near mint, extended tips unworn.

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349   Ea. $50, Set of 3 $125

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Set of 3 teaspoons marked Tryner in arc cartouche -- pinched-waist fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, feathered script L H on front, 5-3/4" long. The pinched-waist style is, of course, typical of the midwest. The name Cornelius Tryner was found in a search of Ancestry.com. He is listed as a 23-year-old jeweler in Maroa, Macon County, Illinois. All 3 spoons are in excellent condition, extended bowl tips unworn.

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886   $100

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Mustard ladle, c1810-20 -- This is a 4-3/4"-long piece with an extraordinarily long (2-1/2") fiddle; it has square shoulders and a tiny (3/4") oval bowl. Mono, as shown, is T E C in feathered script. One would think that a smith, or a partnership of smithies, with a 3-letter mark would be easy to find. Not so. We went thru the B's in Kovel and other silver books to no avail. Then we did the same with the A's, thinking it might be a 3-person partnership. Still no luck. Shame, that. It's a... Click for details

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366   Set of 6 $250

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Bush worked in Easton, PA. These spoons have downturned fiddle handle ends with high pointed shoulders and are reverse-tipt; bowl backs have a crescent drop and the mono is M. P. in feathered script; they are 5-7/8" long. Condition is excellent throughout, extended bowl tips unworn. Each piece is nicely marked BUSH (see pic).

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358   Set of 6 $150

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Made by Sigourney & Hitchcock, Watertown, NY, for the Jeff. Co. Agl. Soc. (see pix). Watertown is the center of Jefferson County in upstate NY. Description of the spoons is as follows: forward-tipt fiddle handles, flared shoulders, 6" in length. Condition is very good - a few bowl dings and very little wear. Agricultural premium silver is always interesting as an artifact of 19thC rural American history.

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363   Set of 6 $200

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Set of 6 forward-tipt fiddle-handled teaspoons with flared shoulders. Feathered script mono J.L.C. on front; 5-7/8" long, excellent condition. NOTE: In putting together the book on North Carolina silversmiths, Cutten assumed that the N.C. following the Hanna mark referred to North Carolina, and that silver found with the mark was made by an unidentified NC smith. Not until some years later did the truth out. You can read about the Hanna department store in New Castle by typing the appropriat... Click for details

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397   $40

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Downturned fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, drop, feathered script C.J.L. on front; 6" long. Condition is excellent, bowl tip unworn.

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893   $85

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Marked S.C. SPAULDING; also marked JANESVILL (no E) WIS, and also COIN. Spaulding was the retailer of this piece. It's also struck with 3 pseudos, the marks of the maker, Hall, Hewson in Albany. Description as follows: forward-tipt fiddle handle, flared shoulders, script mono Gray on front of handle, 8-5/8" long. It is in excellent condition, bowl unworn. Wisconsin coin silver - especially when it is self-identified, so to speak - is extremely rare, almost unheard of; as a matter of fact, t... Click for details

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895   $75

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On the basis of style (wide stubby fiddle handle and unusual high angular shoulders), we've attributed this piece to B.B. Hastings of Cleveland. The ladle is 6-1/8" long and the mono is I.A.A. in feathered script. Aside from an incompletely struck mark, condition is excellent.

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385   Set of 4 $200

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Made by R & W Wilson and shipped west. Forward-tipt fiddle handles with high pointed shoulders; script engraving on front: Ray Co. A. S.; 5-1/4" long. Condition is excellent. A search discloses only one Ray County in the U.S. of A., and that honor belongs to Missouri. Ray Co. is in the western part of the state, not far from Kansas City.

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369   $50

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Coin silver dessert spoon with downturned fiddle handle, flared shoulders, feathered script mono F C P C on front; 7-1/8" long. Condition is excellent, extended bowl tip unworn.

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373   $240 set

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Forward-tipt fiddle handles, sugarloaf shoulders, script mono D D on front; 5-5/8" in length. These spoons were retailed by S. G. Durfee, probably in Palmyra, NY. All in excellent condition.