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Jen unregistered	posted 05-21-2003 10:25 PM [01-1080] Hi! Can anyone tell me anything about this silver spoon marked S-S CO. and back stamped SILVER NAMBU. I think it's sterling... it's got the flex of sterling. I've already tried a Google search for the marks but didn't find anything. Thanks for looking! IP: Logged
doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 05-28-2003 05:04 AM Jen, Geez! Tough one... I'm lookin'... ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 05-28-2003 05:32 AM Still looking, but zip so far in my reference books... on the net, I'm just finding stuff like: afraid of making the same mistake Dr. Nambu had in ... softness and warmth as they lay like spoons, he tried to ... They stood awash in the warm silver light emanating ... Amusing, but of no use to you ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
Kimo Posts: 1627 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 05-28-2003 11:37 AM I'm puzzled as well. I know its frustrating when you ask a question that no one can answer. My last two questions still have zero responses and one of them was about an item made by the well known silver company Gorham. I've tried puzzling out your spoon and all that I've been able to think of is that the word NAMBU is a region in Japan and perhaps it might refer to a maker around there. This may be completely unrelated though. The shape of the spoon is a bit odd as well. The monogram S-S CO. reminds me of the monograms you see on commercial service such as might be found on a ship or railway or perhaps a corporate dinning facility of some kind with the S-S being the initials of the company that owned it rather than made it. If so it could be just about anything in terms of the name of the company as S-S does ring any bells with me. IP: Logged
jenC unregistered	posted 11-14-2003 12:50 AM Bump. Still puzzled by this spoon! IP: Logged
Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 Registered: May 2003	posted 11-14-2003 01:28 AM Just a thought, could the border in fact be a letter T, thus giving T S-S Co - perhaps the "somewhere-beginning-with-T" Steam Ship Company? IP: Logged
vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 11-14-2003 07:17 AM Oddly, the mark and monogram appear to be from the first quarter of the twentieth century, so the spoon would have been made in an earlier style. Silver Nambu is reminiscent of pure silver items of lower content. IP: Logged
adelapt Posts: 418 Registered: May 2003	posted 11-14-2003 09:55 AM Vathek - I admit defeat. What does that last sentence mean? Cheers, Adelapt IP: Logged
Arg(um)entum Posts: 304 Registered: Apr 2002	posted 11-14-2003 12:19 PM I suspect that Vathek meant to say "solid silver items of lower content", probably something like 'Laxey Silver'. But I don't think that is what 'Silver Nambu' sounds like - someday we'll find a 'Steam Ship Co' or the likes that owned something called the 'Silver Nambu'. IP: Logged
Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 Registered: May 2003	posted 11-14-2003 09:53 PM I agree with Vathek that there is something indefinably peculiar about this spoon. The form doesn't quite match with the lettering, although niether is the form totally identifiable as a deliberate copy. This is complete speculation, maybe rubbish, but could this piece come from somewhere where direct contacts with European silver design had been lost? Such work might show archaic traits, as perhaps this piece does? Silver & SSCo (presumably Company) suggest an English speaking part of the world, although there could just be something Germanic in the form of the spoon's bowl. Could this spoon come, for example, from a provincial silversmith in southern or South Africa? Boer background but in an English-speaking environment, and at least one generation removed from European contact? IP: Logged
vathek Posts: 966 Registered: Jun 99	posted 11-15-2003 07:19 AM I did mean to say 'solid' silver, not 'pure' silver. I also think the cartouche is a T and ss is steam ship. IP: Logged

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