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MOber Posts: 3 |
posted 04-16-2015 09:44 PM
  
Thanks ahead for any help on this. We recently moved my Mom next door to us(she's 88 and on dialysis) and as we were helping move items from her present house that she wanted to keep, she came across a spoon she remembers putting away years ago but not much else about it. So I'm trying to find out what I can especially since the engraving seems to indicate it would have been from my great grandparents at least. I've included three pictures below. Length from the tip of handle to the beginning of the bowl is 9inches, the bowl is 3.5 inches wide I'm most interested in knowing the engraving letters, the last one is a "G" but I'm not sure of the first. I'm hoping I can link it to the family tree on ancestry and of course if there is a rough date range it could have been done in. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 04-16-2015 11:36 PM
Welcome. Nice photos. See: John O Mead Medallion Forks IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-17-2015 03:44 PM
Going by the style and the dates associated with the manufacturer (J.O. Mead), your mother's ladle is from the mid-19th century, maybe the 1850s-60s. Looks like a gravy ladle. I'm pretty sure the engraved initials are FG. Does that make sense--is there an FG in your family who would have been alive then? IP: Logged |
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MOber Posts: 3 |
posted 04-17-2015 09:02 PM
well my Great/Great grandfathers brotehr was named Fredericke Geuther and was born 1834 but no indication he ever came to the US. Was it common in those days the initial woudl be the wife's or husbands? Interesting to know the dated timefframe but I guess we'll never really know the story of the gray ladle IP: Logged |
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H Bradshaw Posts: 30 |
posted 04-17-2015 10:00 PM
A 9" handle is really long for a gravy ladle; my guess is a soup ladle. It's a beautiful piece. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 04-17-2015 10:22 PM
Sounds right to me IP: Logged |
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MOber Posts: 3 |
posted 04-18-2015 12:19 AM
guess I'll ask the question even tho IM sure of the answer  but were there any records out there from Mead?Any potential way of tracking this item, most all of the family from what I have found was in Philly or Maryland at thetime thanks IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 04-19-2015 10:57 PM
You're right, soup rather than gravy--I misread the measurements. IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 04-22-2015 11:02 AM
Silver was very mobile and it is not uncommon to find it in places other than where it was made as families moved around and as inheritances passed down to various family members. I agree it is an FG that is engraved. It is normally the wife's initials but it could also be the last name initials of the husband and the wife. It could also have been engraved at pretty much any time from just after it was purchased to much later. If your question about records pertains to tracking the sale from the company or the retailer to the buyer then I think you will not have much luck. Those are not the sort of records that most companies would have kept unless it was some kind of major special order and even then there would not likely be records from most companies bank then. IP: Logged |
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