Silver Fork, Oh My.

[SilverCoinHound]

 

[billb]

Outstanding recovery!!!
Beautiful engraving….

 

[oldmxrat]

That's a real beauty indeed, congrats!

 

[Red-Coat]

Good piece of silver. The mark ‘J.E. Caldwell & Co.’ is for the retailer rather than the manufacturer.

Caldwell was founded in Philadelphia around 1839 and was originally a manufacturer as well as a retailer but, from 1860 onwards, they were a retailer only, using third-party manufacturers but with the flatware still carrying their name. Your fork was actually made by the Whiting Manufacturing Company in New York. It’s Whiting’s 1901 ‘King Edward’ pattern, designed by Charles Osborne.

 

[SilverCoinHound]

Good piece of silver. The mark ‘J.E. Caldwell & Co.’ is for the retailer rather than the manufacturer.

Caldwell was founded in Philadelphia around 1839 and was originally a manufacturer as well as a retailer but, from 1860 onwards, they were a retailer only, using third-party manufacturers but with the flatware still carrying their name. Your fork was actually made by the Whiting Manufacturing Company in New York. It’s Whiting’s 1901 ‘King Edward’ pattern, designed by Charles Osborne.

Very interesting! I assumed it was the manufacturer, thank you for this information. It was recovered in NY so that makes sense.

 

[pepperj]

Forking nice recovery, congratulations.

 

[Nathan W]

Wow!!

 

[GaRebel1861]

Nice!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

A great looking piece of Silver - congrats !

 

[SD51]

Nothing like rescuing some sterling, Congrats!

 

[jewelerguy]

that's forking awesome!