Double Silver Score!

[Mvgirl]

Hello! Been AGES since I've posted. Scored 25 cent silver spoon at a thrift store. Possibly 2 silver ones. Can anyone help me identify the small Dutch one? Is it silver or not? Has markings but not sure. I know the other is (even though it looks goldish for some reason) because it says Sterling on the back. Thanks and happy hunting!!

 

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[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice ones !

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Hard to tell on the mark but the Dutch 833 silver mark has the lion and that shape

 

[Mvgirl]

Hard to tell on the mark but the Dutch 833 silver mark has the lion and that shape

Thanks that's helpful! Does 833 mean its 83.3 percent silver? I think it's silver. Doesn't have that rainbow look that silver plate often has.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

Yeah 83.3 percent silver

 

[Mvgirl]

Yeah 83.3 percent silver

Thanks!!!

 

[ArfieBoy]

Two great finds! Congratulations! Beautiful spoons. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mvgirl]

Two great finds! Congratulations! Beautiful spoons. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you!!

 

[Digger RJ]

Hello! Been AGES since I've posted. Scored 25 cent silver spoon at a thrift store. Possibly 2 silver ones. Can anyone help me identify the small Dutch one? Is it silver or not? Has markings but not sure. I know the other is (even though it looks goldish for some reason) because it says Sterling on the back. Thanks and happy hunting!! View attachment 2065840 View attachment 2065840 View attachment 2065841 View attachment 2065842 View attachment 2065843 View attachment 2065844

Very Nice!! Congrats!!

 

[river roamer]

Nice score

 

[oldmxrat]

Good shopping skills, congrats!

 

[Red-Coat]

Good spoons. Souvenir spoons have largely gone out of fashion, but old silver ones still enjoy a healthy collector market.

The Dutch spoon is indeed .833 silver (833 parts per 1,000), which was demoted to the second standard in the Netherlands when sterling (.925) began to replace it. The marks are a lion passant and Minerva’s helmeted head followed by what should be a date letter. Difficult to read the date letter, but it looks like it might be a lower case ‘k’ for 1970:

The maker mark is for A. Landmeter of Schoonhoven, in the style used between 1957-1994:

The other spoon is Canadian. The maker mark ‘BM Co’ is for the Breadner Manufacturing Company, founded in Ottawa, Ontario c.1900 and moved to Hull, Quebec in 1956. They initially specialised in souvenir jewellery for the tourist trade plus badges and emblems but also made a limited range of souvenir spoons using dies acquired from a bankrupted Montreal company. Difficult to date, except that the crown surmounting the shield is the Tudor crown, used between 1902-1953. During WWII, production was largely turned over to military insignia and they resumed manufacture of jewellery and an expanded range of souvenir spoons from their own dies at the end of the war. My guess would be that the spoon is from between late 1945 to early 1953.

 

[Mvgirl]

Good spoons. Souvenir spoons have largely gone out of fashion, but old silver ones still enjoy a healthy collector market.

The Dutch spoon is indeed .833 silver (833 parts per 1,000), which was demoted to the second standard in the Netherlands when sterling (.925) began to replace it. The marks are a lion passant and Minerva’s helmeted head followed by what should be a date letter. Difficult to read the date letter, but it looks like it might be a lower case ‘k’ for 1970:

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The maker mark is for A. Landmeter of Schoonhoven, in the style used between 1957-1994:

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The other spoon is Canadian. The maker mark ‘BM Co’ is for the Breadner Manufacturing Company, founded in Ottawa, Ontario c.1900 and moved to Hull, Quebec in 1956. They initially specialised in souvenir jewellery for the tourist trade plus badges and emblems but also made a limited range of souvenir spoons using dies acquired from a bankrupted Montreal company. Difficult to date, except that the crown surmounting the shield is the Tudor crown, used between 1902-1953. During WWII, production was largely turned over to military insignia and they resumed manufacture of jewellery and an expanded range of souvenir spoons from their own dies at the end of the war. My guess would be that the spoon is from between late 1945 to early 1953.

Wow!! That'd amazing! I really appreciate all the information you found and shared. It's really helpful and interesting to me! It's nice to have the history, makes you appreciate them more. I was lucky to find them, it's not easy to find sterling spoons, for the most part they are just plated.
Thanks and happy hunting!