Spoon of Mystery....

[BLACKIE555]

Slow day, but....I did get a spoon for my spoon collection. Says......"Sons & CC Nickel Silver" Not sure if there is a preceding name before "Sons" if there is I sure can't make it out. It has a little fluke shaped feature on the end of the handle, but it is very faint.

Any hoo....At least I didn't get skunked......

 

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[Gene Mean]

There is something b4 SONS. Nice spoon though.

 

[Red-Coat]

The spoon is a generic fiddleback, and those generally don’t feature in the pattern books since almost every flatware company made them from about 1820 onwards. ‘Nickel silver’ (which is a copper/nickel/zinc alloy containing no actual silver) didn’t come into usage until the 1830s as unplated metal and then as electroplate in the 1840s.

I think you’ll find it says “XXXXX SONS & CO” and while there could be small and obscure undocumented companies to whom such a mark could be attributed, there’s only one mainstream company as a possibility (assuming the spoon is American): W.H. Glenny, Sons & Co. who used this mark between c1865-1898:



William Glenny was an importer, wholesaler and retailer of glassware, crockery and flatware established in Buffalo NY in 1840, but his sons weren’t added as business partners until c.1865. The company went on to become one of the largest tableware importers in the US and their own mark was applied to goods produced for them. They went out of business in 1898.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[DizzyDigger]

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There are definitely letters and/or numbers preceding "Sons",
and as best I can see there are no "X"'s. Last letter appears
to be a T.

 

[Red-Coat]

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There are definitely letters and/or numbers preceding "Sons",
and as best I can see there are no "X"'s. Last letter appears
to be a T.

When I said “XXXXX SONS & CO”, I was just using the Xs to signify an unknown number of indeterminate characters. I wasn't suggesting that any of those characters might actually be an X.

In terms of company marks on flatware, W.H. Glenny, Sons & Co. was the only documented mainstream American business who used a mark ending "... SONS & CO" as far as I am aware. I would be sure it's one of their spoons and - hopefully - that last letter will prove to be a 'Y' not a 'T'.

 

[troll62]

When I said “XXXXX SONS & CO”, I was just using the Xs to signify an unknown number of indeterminate characters. I wasn't suggesting that any of those characters might actually be an X.

In terms of company marks on flatware, W.H. Glenny, Sons & Co. was the only documented mainstream American business who used a mark ending "... SONS & CO" as far as I am aware. I would be sure it's one of their spoons and - hopefully - that last letter will prove to be a 'Y' not a 'T'.

Slow day, but....I did get a spoon for my spoon collection. Says......"Sons & CC Nickel Silver" Not sure if there is a preceding name before "Sons" if there is I sure can't make it out. It has a little fluke shaped feature on the end of the handle, but it is very faint.

Any hoo....At least I didn't get skunked......View attachment 1946039

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Good Morning, I am new to this site, but saw this when I googled WH Glenny. Do you happen to still have this spoon?