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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-19-2012 01:05 PM
  
Another spoon I bought yesterday came in a plastic bag labeled "Marguerite Hastier N.Y. N.Y. 1771 Widow of Isaac Hastier 1750-1770." I would love that to be true. How romantic--a female silversmith! But the spoon looks later than that to me. The mark is M pellet H in an oval. Who actually made it? Matthias Haverstick? IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 03-19-2012 02:58 PM
It's Haverstick's. Darling shows a mark for Marguerite, but it has not been otherwise documented. She was the daughter, not wife, of Jan, whose business she continued. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-19-2012 03:14 PM
Thank you, wev. Moral: Don't believe everything you read on a plastic bag. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 03-19-2012 03:25 PM
Always good advice, but it's a nice spoon for all that and a nice clear strike of the mark. I'm going to use the image, with permission, as it is better than mine. IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 03-19-2012 04:03 PM
And it is not commonly encountered, either. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-19-2012 04:12 PM
Please do use it--I would be honored. I only a tiny bit disappointed that it's not Marguerite--as you say, it's a nice old spoon. I went a little crazy this weekend at the Pier show buying all the nice old unloved spoons in dirty plastic bags that anyone offered me for lunch money. I wound up with some really sweet little spoons, including this one, the rat-tail on the other thread I started today, a little bright-cut coffin-end by Peter Field Jr, and--I discovered to my delight when I got home--my very first bird-back spoon, by David Hall. And wev, can I just say how extremely informative, impressive, and useful your wonderful website is? Thank you again for it. Look--bird back! The marks: The spoon itself: IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-19-2012 04:18 PM
Maybe this bird picture is clearer? It's very worn, and very hard to photograph. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 03-19-2012 05:19 PM
Ah shucks; my pleasure. And could you send me a good shot of the right hand Hall mark? I have one on the site, but it's a little rubbed and slightly blurry. Yours is better, but a little too small to use. You can get my email off my site main page -- but only if it's not a bother. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 03-19-2012 05:29 PM
Done! IP: Logged |
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