Hallmarks - Silver

[cordley]

Some silver spoons have been passed down through the family and I am trying to confirm the likely owners, each is of a set of six.

Can anyone interpret the assay marks so I can see how old they are.?  about 1820 and 1860 perhaps?

And another question;  I think these spoons were given at marriage to the Brides, was that a common gift, and would they have have come from her parents - is there a tradition about this??  I know silver spoons were often an item named in Wills.

Sorry, best photos my phone let me take!  Hope this is an appropriate place to post this.

[jim1]

The head looks like George 111 & date letter "L" = 1806.

[cordley]

Thanks, Jim.  It was older than I suspected.

I had trouble posting this request and it seemed to disappear, so I started again in the "Common Room"  under the Topic " Old silver - assay marks, trying to date spoons" where I was able to add better pictures, and there have been more replies.

Don't know if there is a way of linking these two Topics...  sorry

Pam