✅ SOLVED Copper spoon

[Williamsce24]

Is there anyway to date or ID these old spoons? Appears to be copper. Thank you

 

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[invent4hir]

Gently clean it then look at the reverse for a maker's mark. That should help narrow the date range.

 

[Daron78]

I found this in Georgia, I can't for the life of me read what this says or find anything that resembles it. Any help will be appreciated

 

[Red-Coat]

This seems to be prematurely marked as 'solved'.

It's not copper, but nickel-silver (a high copper alloy with no silver content) which has been subsequently electro-plated with silver,. The mark reads 'N.S.CO, (for the National Silver Company) and E.P.N.S. (for Electro-Plated Nickel Silver) REINFORCED'. It's their 'Florence' pattern, introduced in 1930:

 

[Red-Coat]

Only just noticed that @Daron78 has posted onto the thread started by @Williamsce24 with an unrelated piece of flatware.