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Thank you Paulatic.
All very interesting eh?

Couple more shots.
Note the fine detail.

Paulatic wrote: 7 Jun 2022, 3:07pm Joseph Rogers uses that 6point star https://www.silvercollection.it/electro ... .html#ROD1

On the same page, Roberts & Dore Ltd, seem to have used an s with a line through it. It could be that was used for Sheffield?

How big is it?

The Mrs who was an antique dealer says its probably a foreign apostle spoon. The Gambia is surrounded by Senegal so possibly French?

Al

From what i have read I'm guessing German.

The spoon came out of a box donated in UK.
The box could have been packed a year or more ago and stored with hundreds of others, and the container was loaded with it all here in Cornwall early Feb this year ............. and unloaded in late April out in The Gambia.

It's 8.5 inches long top of the saint's head to the bottom of the spoon bowl.

Foreign I guess, but from what I am told by the Silver Collector Forums, it's not a "hallmark", and it was made in Sheffield.

https://www.silver-collector.com/t/apos ... tion/15939

J S & S with the star as a logo.
John Sanderson and Son.

Where is the JS&S?
If you look at John Sandersons JS Hallmark it is a prominent JS

That strange symbol on the left is supposed to be a J.
The S with the line through is an S.
& is obvious I suppose.

Any road up, that's what I was told on the Silver forum.

I would still take it somewhere to be sure as the four hallmarks I pictured seem to be the only four that Sanderson&son used.The one on yours looks nothing like any of theirs.

Agree completely.
I'm not arguing with anyone, as I'm a completely ignorant about this stuff, but a second (third?) opinion is always good.

Watch this space in the next week of so.
Going into Tavistock tomorrow - bank - then Lidl and Morrisons, but not spending much time up and down the highstreet.
Couple of jewellers there.
Scruples, is our favourite.
https://www.facebook.com/scruplesjewellers/

Not Ratner's...

Read this.

https://www.hawleysheffieldknives.com/n ... =s&kel=890

It would seem there has been two incarnations of John Sanderson and Son.
I reckon that our spoon thingy is dated about 1914 or so, and quite different to the later stuff.

............... I guess.

An edition of "Me and my spoon" perhaps..........

(Private Eye joke, sorry.)

If you find a second one you could play the spoons and entertain the punters in the rising sun.
https://youtu.be/hLb65ATWmKw

thirdcrank wrote: 8 Jun 2022, 10:15pm An edition of "Me and my spoon" perhaps..........

(Private Eye joke, sorry.)

Same thought, and one of the best examples of form-based humour. Highly Recommended.

Jonathan