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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 07-30-2006 07:08 PM
  
Here's a pair of teaspoons: I suspect these are Canadian, most likely William Learmont of Montreal, 1841-1870. I don't find this exact set of marks in my references, but I don't have the larger Langdon works (although the pocket Langdon says it includes all marks from his earlier two volumes, plus subsequent research). The W.L mark appears to match ones illustrated in the pocket Langdon, but not the crown mark. Does anyone know these marks? IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 252 |
posted 08-01-2006 07:18 PM
I checked J.Langdon: Canadian Silversmiths 1700-1900, Toronto 1966 - page 95, 7 punches for William Learmont are shown, but none of these marks features a crown mark. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 08-05-2006 12:18 PM
Langdon, in his Canadian Silversmiths and their Marks 1667-1867, devotes considerable space to a treatment of Robert Hendery and John Leslie, first master and apprentice and then partners, who probably produced over half of the silver made in Canada in the second half of the Nineteenth Century. There are many pseudohallmarks used by them on silver produced for others to retail throughout Canada, which could be considered trademarks. Among these are several similar crowns and several lions passant; although the particular punches on this spoon do not seem to match exactly those samples shown, I suppose it is reasonable to assume that others were used as well, and that these marks are on silver that might have been supplied by them to Learmont for resale. IP: Logged |
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posted 08-05-2006 05:11 PM
Thanks, both! I suppose I'll have to invest in one of Langdon's other books; I've relied on his pocket book of marks for years, but it has no discussion of biographies or the trade -- just the marks. IP: Logged |
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