Coin/Sterling silver galore! Oldest spoon by far! Help to identify?

[Spartcom5]

Was having bad luck today at g sales, especially since my app was set to Saturday and it was Sunday so I started off the day by going to three non existent g sales lol. Anyways I quit the gsales and hit a thrift instead. Previously I found a small sterling toothpick bowl here but they usually pull all silver and put it in the case. I approached the rack where they hang bags of spoons, forks, knives, etc. I spotted a tarnished piece and it said Sterling so I immediately grabbed the bag and noticed an old spoon in the same bag. I started looking some more and there were some other bags with more sterling spoons. As I was looking another hunter came up next to me and started looking as well. He reached up in front of me trying to find some stuff since he saw I had four bags, so I looked down and found another bag with a very old coin spoon. I ended up with 5 bags at $3 each bag. Some bags had one spoon while one had 4 spoons. I got a decent amount of silver weight for $15 but cooler than that is the age of some of these spoons.
This first spoon is Jones, Ball & Poor 1846-1853 and is my oldest spoon!

Wasn't able to identify this one. Has the initials W.H. Looks 1800s.

Not able to identify this either looks like Tra S Town? and then Warranted. This was the spoon I almost lost!

Next spoon is very cool, Palmer & Bachelders marked Pure Coin.

Another spoon from Birmingham 1899.

Some generic smaller Sterling spoons.

Finally my favorite spoon, Alaska Pacific Yukon Expo. held in Seattle Washington 1909. One of these sold on ebay for $40! I'll be keeping mine though.

 

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[AlienLifeForm]

Don't you just love that, folks couldn't care less about something until they see someone else getting some, then their ears perk up and they weasel right into the mix, lol! Happens all the time. Nice silver you got!

 

[huntsman53]

I haven't had time to do a lot of research but the 2nd spoon down from the top might be a generic Silver spoon by Wood & Hughes. See the link below for the third spoon from the top which was made by Ira S. Town.

Saving Vermont History, One Silver Spoon At a Time | Collectors Weekly


Frank

 

[trdking]

Warranted is silver plate Pure coin is not even silver plate If you are interested. Nice score!!

 

[Spartcom5]

Thanks Huntsman!! Does the warranted mark really mean silver plated. I'd be amazed because it really looks like coin silver and is even flexible just like silver. I looks everywhere and it seems every piece from Ira S Town online is coin silver unless I got some rare silver plated piece! Either way it's no newer than 1885. I really need to find out if it is plated though because the last silver plated piece I polished wore down to the copper.

 

[RustyGold]

Congratulations on the nice silver!

 

[tamrock]

Good score.

 

[JimDon]

Great finds. Coin silver is great stuff.

 

[Johnnybravo300]

Most spoons I find have dates but it's not manufacture date. It's when the company opened. Not sure on that.

 

[niffler]

Love the A.Y.P. spoon! I found a A.Y.P. commemorative coin/token many years ago, so I guess I reserve a special place in my heart for such things.

 

[trdking]

Thanks Huntsman!! Does the warranted mark really mean silver plated. I'd be amazed because it really looks like coin silver and is even flexible just like silver. I looks everywhere and it seems every piece from Ira S Town online is coin silver unless I got some rare silver plated piece! Either way it's no newer than 1885. I really need to find out if it is plated though because the last silver plated piece I polished wore down to the copper.

Warranted is typically used in gold and silver plate. As in It is Warranted not to wear off for a certain period of time. It could be coin silver as well which is not silver at all Like Nickel silver or German Silver. Does it look to be silver? If so it is plated.

 

[Spartcom5]

Warranted is typically used in gold and silver plate. As in It is Warranted not to wear off for a certain period of time. It could be coin silver as well which is not silver at all Like Nickel silver or German Silver. Does it look to be silver? If so it is plated.

I thought coin silver is solid? I am confused because I am pretty sure coin silver is a purity of solid silver, I read online the term was used before 1906 could be anywhere from 75-90%....

 

[trdhrdr007]

According to the dictionary coin silver is "[FONT=&quot]silver of the fineness legalized for coins (such as .900 [/FONT]fine[FONT=&quot] in the U.S., .500 fine for Great Britain since 1920)".[/FONT]

 

[ARC]

One word... "wow".

Super stellar for a thrift store.

Sheesh ours here are boring... and picked out before it even hits the shelves.

Our thrift stores here employ people who spot stuff out for them... which in turn they list online.

Occasionally something will "slip through the cracks" but then will only last minutes on a shelf in a busy thrift here.

 

[JimDon]

I thought coin silver is solid? I am confused because I am pretty sure coin silver is a purity of solid silver, I read online the term was used before 1906 could be anywhere from 75-90%....

I had one very similar. It had both Coin and I think it was a mark similar to Warranted. It tuned out it was plated with coin silver.

 

[Spartcom5]

Had them all tested and I posted them on a dedicated 925 Forum. Everything is good! The one that said warranted was 89% silver and oddly enough the one that says pure coin is 92% while the other two coin spoons were around 87%. Perfect!

 

[Red-Coat]

Just doing a bit of tidying up on some older threads, mainly for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Nice old spoons.

The one marked ‘W.H.’ is from one of the two William Haversticks, who were father and son. Both William Haverstick, Jr. (b. 1780; d. 1859) and William Haverstick, Sr. (b. 1756 d. 1823) used the same mark. The former was in business in Lancaster, PA 1803-1810 and Philadelphia, PA 1810-1813; the latter was in business in Philadelphia, PA c. 1778-1793 and Lancaster, PA 1795-1819.

The mark interpreted as “Tra S Town?” and then “Warranted” is for Ira Strong Town (1810-1902) in business in Montpelier, VT between 1829-1852 and 1868-1889. Ira Strong Town was in partnership with his brother Josiah between 1829-1832 as “IS & J Town” and then worked independently from 1832-1838 but retaining the name of the partnership. Then in partnership with Elijah B. Witherell from 1838-1845 as “Town & Witherell”, followed by a partnership with Jonas G. Hall from 148-1851 as “Town & Hall”. He sold the business to Phinney & Mead in 1852, later returning to silversmithing in 1868.
I would be sure it's silverplate. It would be highly unusual to see a "warranted" mark on solid silver.

The 1899 Birmingham hallmarked sterling spoon has the maker mark for Levi & Salaman (Phineas Harris Levi & Joseph Wolfe Salaman).

The 1909 AYP Expo HDK Souvenir spoon is, I think, from Joseph Mayer & Bros of Seattle, WA. I don’t know what the ‘HDK’ stands for, but many of Mayer’s souvenir spoons have this additional mark. Perhaps they’re the designer’s initials or maybe Mayer had a subsidiary division for items like this.