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FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-17-2002 09:46 PM [02-0063] Do you know if there is a printed record of the flatware designs produced by Albert Coles and his prolific firm? I recently purchased three sterling knives in a stunning pattern that is tipt with woman's bust above the space for engraved initials and with a trail of beads that end in bell flower design. The edges are threaded and the handle has been twisted 90 degrees from the handle like many a master butter knife. Any help would be appreciated. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 09-17-2002 09:57 PM Where's that camera, Fred? Sounds positively frightening -- I have to see a picture! IP: Logged
smfc75 Posts: 122 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 09-17-2002 10:50 PM This could be Albert Coles' Kenilworth pattern -- documented in Soeffing's "Silver Medallion Flatware". Turner's "American Silver Flatware" also documents five other Coles patterns, but none of those shown match your description. [This message has been edited by smfc75 (edited 09-17-2002).] IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-18-2002 12:09 AM WEV, I will send you off an image and perhaps you can help me post it for all to see. I don't believe they qualify as a medallion item and perhaps I am wrong. They were part of the dowry of a spinstress and she never got the oportunity to use them and so they are in unused condition and very crisp. IP: Logged
smfc75 Posts: 122 Registered: Mar 2002	posted 09-18-2002 01:58 PM Do your knives look like this? IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 09-18-2002 05:03 PM Here are the images from Fred IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-18-2002 08:06 PM Scott, You beat my images and yes as you can see they are the same pattern, and these are fruit knives. I have three of these. Is there a pattern name for this? Thanks to WEV for hosting my images. Fred IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 09-18-2002 09:38 PM Fred - The pattern is called Kenilworth Introduced 1850-60. IP: Logged
FredZ Posts: 1070 Registered: Jun 99	posted 09-19-2002 08:31 AM Scott, Thank you ever so much for the information. Your book is definately on my list of those to get this comming year. I have to admit that the style is not one I will keep for my collection and will probably look to find someone who collects this type of silverware. I tend to lean toward cleaner lines and less decoration. I could not pass them up since they were in such pristene condition. This forum is one of the finest on the net and it is a credit to each and every one of your moderators. Thanks again for your help. Fred IP: Logged
Brent Posts: 1507 Registered: May 99	posted 10-11-2002 01:40 PM I have a coda to this post. A while ago I got these ice cream spoons on eBay. They have no marks at all, but they flex like solid silver. I've hesitatingly attributed them to Coles, but they very well may have been made by a copycat smith and/or be plated. I call the pattern "CHERUB." Trefid IP: Logged

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