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jsilverheels Posts: 4 Registered: Feb 2003	posted 02-19-2003 01:23 PM Can you help find the location of the of the maker(s) of a few spoons I have. I do not have photos just yet, but maybe my description will be all you need at this time. Spoon 1. It is a tablespoon, double-swell shape (Cincinnati, Kentucky, etc. style), the incuse mark is "C&J VANHOUTEN" Spoon 2. Same double-swell shape, the mark is "CRAFT & CUTTER" in a retangle with rounded ends. Thanks for any help. IP: Logged
labarbedor Posts: 353 Registered: Jun 2002	posted 02-19-2003 04:23 PM Where have you been all these years Tanto? Craft & Cutter is 1870 Indiana. The other doesn't ring a bell. IP: Logged
jsilverheels Posts: 4 Registered: Feb 2003	posted 02-19-2003 04:54 PM Tonto was here, scouting from a distance. Thanks for your help. Where did you find the information? The only listing I see in the Indiana book is A.P. Craft 1887. No "Cutter". IP: Logged
labarbedor Posts: 353 Registered: Jun 2002	posted 02-19-2003 07:06 PM Page 128, I've had pieces before. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 02-19-2003 07:21 PM I don't know who C & J might have been, but there were a large number of Vanhouton's in the Cincinnati area from the 1830s on. IP: Logged
jsilverheels Posts: 4 Registered: Feb 2003	posted 02-19-2003 08:28 PM Thanks guys. I can't believe I missed P.128. I have many more unknowns, but they're going to need photos posted. See you soon. IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 02-24-2009 11:53 PM I haven't pinned down the pair of C & J VanHouten, but there were VanHouten jewelry manufacturers in Newark, New Jersey beginning in the mid nineteenth century through at least the early twentieth century. They appear in both city directories and census's. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 02-24-2009).] [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 02-25-2009).] IP: Logged
middletom Posts: 467 Registered: May 2004	posted 02-25-2009 05:22 PM I find the mention of Van Houten interesting because I have ancestors on my mother's side name Van Houten. They were from the New York area. When Caterine Van Houten married into my family, she was disowned by her family for marrying an Englishman. They were still holding a grudge over losing New Amsterdam. middletom IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 03-26-2009 02:09 AM There's a Joseph B Vanhouten and Charles Vanhouten listed the 1860 U S Federal Census for Cincinnati, Ohio as silversmiths. Both were born in New York, 1829 and 1834 respectively. They are listed as C & J B Vanhouten under the heading of silverware and C & J Vanhouten under the heading of platers in the 1862 Cincinnati City Directory. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 03-26-2009).] IP: Logged

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