Help with silver marks

[Loko750]

Picked this up at a thrift today for 50 cents. Was wondering if anyone could help with the makers mark? I think the rest is London assay mark (leopard), lion passant (silver quality mark), O in that shield i think is 1889 not 100%. The sovereigns head duty mark is from 1871 i think, also not 100%. But cannot find anything on the makers mark, any help is appreciated.

 

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[Loko750]

Sorry I think it is a type of teaspoon maybe? It has a monogram (not sure on letters. WFI maybe?) and it weighs in at 17.2grams.

 

[islamoradamark]

Thats really nice looking

 

[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet

Nice spoon. It’s Sterling silver, London assayed, and with the date letter for 1889. Date letters didn’t necessarily change on 1st January and your spoon was assayed between 29th May 1889 – 1st May 1890. The requirement for a duty mark was dropped on 2nd May 1890 and then the date letter ultimately moved on from ‘O’ to ‘P’, without the duty mark.

I don’t recognise the maker’s mark but it seems to be both distorted and damaged. Perhaps ‘J’ (or possibly a stylised T) and then ‘H’ with something undecipherable in between the letters. I drew a blank on that. The monogram won’t help much since it will be a customer-requested addition for family initials (sometimes company initials).

The bowl shape is typically what we call “mustard spoon” but was used for serving condiments and accompaniments in general.

 

[Red-Coat]

Aah… I looked more carefully at your pictures and the maker mark is clearer in your first picture than it is in the close-up. It’s a small ‘J’ and ‘H’ with a larger ‘S’ in between, which is for Joseph & Horace Savory of London. The mark was registered in 1884 and in use until 1893.

 

[Loko750]

Thankyou red coat i was looking over all the jh makers marks i could find but it was the S that eluded me.