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Up for bid is a set of three coin silver teaspoons by John Adam of Alexandria, Virginia, working from about 1803 to the 1840s. The spoons are 6 1/8" long and together weigh 59 grams. The spoons have small pointed shoulders, swaged rounded drops and downturned fiddle handles. The spoons are all monogrammed "JPB" on the front of the handles in script. The spoons are marked [I.ADAM.] in a rectangle, as shown.

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North Hill Antiques  
661   $250

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Oval-end handle, c1790 -- drop on bowl back, reverse rib, feathered script mono D on front; 7-1/2" in length. A little unevenness in bowl, otherwise condition is excellent.

North Hill Antiques  
671   $60

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Downturned fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, feathered script mono E L A on front, 5-5/8" in length. Excellent condition throughout, bowl tip unworn.

North Hill Antiques  
669   $350

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18th century oval-end handle, feathered script mono F on front; 7-1/8" in length. Condition is excellent throughout. The mark is exceptional in its crispness, as is the distinctive eagle of Capt. William Richardson, which came with the business when Cowan took it over in 1808.

North Hill Antiques  
660   $1250

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Double-struck fiddlethread pattern with extremely high shoulders, feathered script mono EJ+CP on front. Length is 13-3/4", the oval bowl 4-3/8" x 3-5/8". Most imposing is the ladle's weight -- 9 oz. 6 dwt Troy. Condition is excellent throughout. Hayden Brother & Co. was the retailer, the maker was most probably Gale & Son, NYC, which made much of the silver retailed in ante-bellum South Carolina.

Hampton Galleries  
7150A   $1,450

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Rare Southern marrow scoop by James Conning, Mobile, Alabama (c. 1850), 8-3/4" long, 3" wider scoop on one side and 3-3/4" narrow scoop on other side, marked "J.CONNING" and "MOBILE", each in rectangular punch on middle bar.

Old Friends  
583b   $ 245

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Mid 19th century soup ladles, which this piece of Syracuse, New York's Joseph Seymour is, tend to be large scale, almost to the extreme. That is the case with this which is exceptionally big at 13 3/4" long, has a bowl 4 1/4" wide, 3 3/4" across, and is 1 1/4" deep. It weighs a proportionately heavy 5.3 T. oz. The pattern appears to be a Tuscan derivative, which itself is a variant of Olive. It is double die struck, meaning the design appears on both sides. There is an "A.E.L." feathered sc... Click for details

North Hill Antiques  
655   Set of 6 $500

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Downturned fiddle handles, c1825 -- pointed shoulders, drop, script M on front (original mono removed). Length is 8-1/4". Weight is 7-3/4 Troy oz. Condition is quite good.

North Hill Antiques  
697   $450

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Garretson worked in Wilmington. This spoon has an oval-end handle, c1790, with a drop on the bowl back. The mono is a feathered script T C on the front of the handle. It is 9-3/16" in length. A slight touch of tipwear, but overall in very fine condition.

North Hill Antiques  
656   Ea. $50, Set of 5 $225

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Forward-tipt fiddle handle, c1850 -- high pointed shoulders, feathered script mono L J on front; 5-3/4" in length. Condition of all 5 is excellent.

Gebelein  
4668   $200 for 3

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Coffin fiddle. V drop. Length 6-1/8". The monogram is a lengthwise script ZEC. Overall and mark condition are excellent.

Bruce Cherner Antique Silver  
1908   $1100.00

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circa 1850, height 3 3/4; top diameter 3 1/8; bottom diameter 2 1/2 inches, satisfyingly hefty at 5.94 oz. Troy, a few very minor dings but fine overall condition. Just one or two mouse clicks in a Google® search window will find you a similar example which was lighter, shorter and in rather shabby condition that fetched our same price, at auction...

Hampton Galleries  
0000   SOLD

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Rare pair of coin silver marrow scoops, Adolphe Himmel, New Orleans, Louisiana (c. 1855), 9-11/16" long, thin 4" scoop on each side of center bar, feather script monogram "McC" on one side of center bar that is wider in center than on sides, other side of center bar has either a "1" or "2" and is marked "A.H." on one side of numeral and "N.O." on other side, all incuse.

North Hill Antiques  
690   $775

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Fiddlethread pattern, 13" in length with 4-1/4"-long bowl, huge flared shoulders at base of stem. Mono on front of the handle is W C in old English letters, topped by the crest of a crown, and over the date, 1864, probably the year of its manufacture. Outside the south, of course, a rice spoon is more commonly referred to as a stuffing spoon. Condition of this piece is excellent.

North Hill Antiques  
689   $450

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Oval-end handle, c1795 - reverse rib, feathered script mono A T on front; 8-5/8" in length. Bird worn (see pic), but spoon is in fine condition and mark is excellent.

Hampton Galleries  
7042   $575

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Coin silver octagonal cup, retailed by Hyde & Goodrich of New Orleans, Louisiana and manufactured by Wood & Hughes in NYC (c. 1840), 3-1/8" tall, octagonal-shaped cup with slightly everted rim, bright cut ferns and swags on each panel, feather script monogram "JCS" ? on front panel, hollow flat-topped C-shaped handle, marked "HYDE & GOODRICH" in rectangular punch and "W & H" (vertically) in oval punch.