✅ SOLVED Missouri finds
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Tony in SC
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Cool finds, good variety!
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The spoon is by John Yates of Birmingham, England.
Look carefully at the first cartouche and there's an 'I' as the first letter, so it reads 'INo.' which is an old abbreviation for 'Jonathon.' There was no 'J' in the English alphabet until 1524, with 'I' being used instead, but many folks continued to use old spellings such as 'Ionathon' for a long time afterwards.
Yates was active at 38 Coleshill Street (1852) from the Electro and Albata Plate Works and then at Pritchett Street (by 1856). He used a number of different base metal alloy imitations of silver, usually with additional silver-plating, and held various patents or trademarks for ‘Albata Plate’, ‘Virginian Silver’, ‘Silvern’ and ‘Silver Ash’. He also used ‘Crown Metal’ and ‘Britannia Metal’.
Look carefully at the first cartouche and there's an 'I' as the first letter, so it reads 'INo.' which is an old abbreviation for 'Jonathon.' There was no 'J' in the English alphabet until 1524, with 'I' being used instead, but many folks continued to use old spellings such as 'Ionathon' for a long time afterwards.
Yates was active at 38 Coleshill Street (1852) from the Electro and Albata Plate Works and then at Pritchett Street (by 1856). He used a number of different base metal alloy imitations of silver, usually with additional silver-plating, and held various patents or trademarks for ‘Albata Plate’, ‘Virginian Silver’, ‘Silvern’ and ‘Silver Ash’. He also used ‘Crown Metal’ and ‘Britannia Metal’.
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The letters INo. YA TE S are meant to be read as a continuous name: INo. YATES.
Yates was one of several makers of silver plate who irregularly spaced their names out in separate cartouches to give them a passing resemblance to hallmarks.
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No, but for sure some 1800s stuff in there
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