Downturned fiddle handle, large square shoulders, faint incised pointed-arch drop on bowl back, reverse tipt, ornate feathered script mono P M M J on front; 9-1/2" in length, 2 T oz. in weight. Condition is excellent throughout.
Made by Ball, Tompkins & Black, NYC, c1845 -- 12 forms, each 7" long, and 11 knives with silver blades, 8-1/4" long. Mono on all 23 pieces is M D (shown). Only the knives are marked with the makers' names. Some of the hollow handles have light dings, but, by and large, overall condition is excellent.
With 3"-long cast acorn nips enveloped in oak leaves; arms embossed with grapes and leaves, and a feathered script mono M M in a cartouche on bend. Overall length is 7-1/8" and weight, at 89 grams, is just short of 3 T oz. Condition throughout is minty.
Downturned fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, slight reverse rib, feathered script mono M W P on front; 7-1/8" long. Condition is excellent. The eagle pseudo accompanying the maker's mark is attributed by McGrew to Wallace
Forward-tipt fiddle handle, c1850-60 -- high flared shoulders, feathered script mono McK on front; 12-3/4" long, 4-1/4" oval bowl, 6+ T oz. in weight. Test scar on back of handle, otherwise condition is excellent. John Campbell, alone and in partnership with Wyman and others, ran a jewelry store in Montgomery through most of the decade of the 1850s.
Crisp basket at handle end and 12-lobe shell drop on bowl back, flared shoulders, shaded script mono C A on front; 6-1/4" long, 1-3/4" x 1-3/8" oval bowl. Condition is near-mint. The series of marks tell an interesting story. According to McGrew's "Manufacturers Marks," the ladle was made in the NYC shop of I.W. Forbes and retailed by Chauncey Johnson in Albany. The incised D is a quality sign often used in Albany. Neat piece.
Downturned fiddle handle, flared shoulders, reverse tipt, feathered script mono J A C on front; 8-1/2" long, weighs 1.5 T Oz. Condition is excellent. McGrew tentatively attributes the manufacturer's marks - lion, star and D -- to Nelson Haight, also of Newburgh.
Pointed-end handle, c1795 -- pointed-arch drop on bowl back, light reverse rib, shaded feathered script mono A V P on front; 8-3/4" in length, each 2 Troy oz in weight. Condition is near-mint.
