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melissa unregistered	posted 06-16-2001 04:10 PM [01-0382] Hello. I am trying to catalog my collection (mostly spoons) but cannot identify where the following smiths worked. Can any of you mark mavens out there help me? H. Adams, also marked Springfield. A plain fiddle with straight shoulders, ca 1825. The dealer I bought this from said he worked in Hartford & Springfield, but I'll be darned if I can find a record. B & L a long coffin teaspoon, with fancy engraved initials. Southern NJ has been suggested. Bailey & Brother. in a pointed banner. (Not & Brothers.) I spoke to Winterthur, and they had no record of this mark. Obviously similar to the Baileys up in New Hampshire. A wavy fiddle tablespoon. C. Baker, tipt teaspoon, ca 1840. S Baker & Son. Block letters & plain cartouche like Stephen Baker's mark. Did he have a son? J. Berky. lightweight fiddle teaspoons, ca 1835. J. Bowman. Very fancy fork. I suspect he is a retailer, not a maker, ca 1870. C & N. lightweight basket of flowers tsp. C & W. another long coffin. J.T.D in serrated cartouche. ca 1825. H. Elmer. Somehow, I think these are Philadelphia. O & M Gaffney. ca 1840 R.L.G. Rene L. Gravelle? Philadelphia 1811-1831. Style fits attribution, but does anyone have a reference? Obviously, I've gotten up to the G's. I know photo's would help, but that is down the road a bit more. Speculation, anyone? IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 06-16-2001 06:29 PM I wish you'd thrown in an easy one so I'd look better; I may have to turn in my maven hood. All I can offer at first glance is: Bailey & Brother may be a mark used by the partnership of Joseph Trowbridge Bailey and his brother Eli Wescott Bailey in the transition period between the end of Bailey & Kitchen (1846/47) and the start of Bailey & Company (1848). Stephens Baker (married Adeline Batchelder 26 Jul 1827) did not have any children. I have several spoons with his distinctly shaped mark. I also have a c 1830 serving spoon marked S. BAKER in a sharply rectangular cartouche, apparently, like yours, by a different and unrecorded maker. I have seen the R. L. G. mark attributed to Gravelle in several catalogs, but without reference. I have nothing listed for an H. Adams, but the surname has been found in the Hartford area since before 1604. Maybe he's the brother of my mysterious R. Adams. Back to the books wev IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 04-14-2008 01:31 AM Stephens Baker of Beverly, MA had a son, Charles B Baker, who was a bookkeeper. And Stephens may have had other sons, but none have been recorded thus far. Stephens, along with his other well documented occupations, also served as a commissioner in Sheffield, IL around the 1860's. He and his wife Adeline were there with their daughter and son in law. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 04-14-2008).] IP: Logged

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