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park1226 Posts: 102 |
posted 10-11-2016 02:37 PM
  
I recently bought an interesting set of 11 Spanish American War souvenir spoons. Each features Rear Admiral Sampson and the bowls contain pictures of each battle ships under his command. There is no makers mark. They are simply stamped STANDARD on the reverse. I read online that STANDARD is synonymous with the 900 standard for Coin. Is that true? Thank you.   IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 10-12-2016 08:51 AM
'STANDARD' is the maker's mark, they're silverplate, produced by Boston manufacturer Standard Silverware Co., have seen this design with Commodore Dewey and Captain Sigsbee too; they also made Columbian Exposition spoons showing different buildings, as well as a few line patterns. Very doubtful that 1890s souvenir spoons, or most any other production of the era, even in the unlikely (though possible) case of being made of coin silver, would be marked as 'Standard'... The 1877 ad below mentions Standard's production as "...heavily plated with pure nickel (the hardest white metal known), and a double-extra plate of pure Coin-Standard Silver added on top of the nickel, thus rendering them the very best Silver-plated ware manufactured." Marketing nonsense, of course, the plating would be fine silver, and the majority of the Standard pieces I've handled have been pretty worn, showing brass base metal. Not where I can check my souvenir spoon references, and don't recall if there is additional information, but will check when I get a chance. ~Cheryl [This message has been edited by dragonflywink (edited 10-12-2016).] IP: Logged |
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park1226 Posts: 102 |
posted 10-12-2016 10:30 AM
Thanks so much Cheryl. I could not find the Standard Silver Company in my Davis & Deibel first edition. I also was a bit skeptical about the coin silver online reference. I only found it in one source. IP: Logged |
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