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Eleven (11) pieces mostly Southern coin silver including Nashville TN, Charleston SC, Petersburg and Alexandria, VA, and Lexington, KY. 1st item: Nashville, Tennessee teaspoon, plain fiddle handle, mark on back J * E in serrated rectangle attributed to John Elliston, working Nashville, 1809-1823. Monogrammed LOK (?). 5 5/8" L. 0.425 troy ounces. (See photo #7, far right, for mark). Note: John Elliston was the nephew and business partner of Joseph Thorp Elliston. He was born in Kentucky and like his uncle, apprenticed with Samuel Ayres before moving to Nashville (ref. Tennessee Silversmiths by Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, p. 74). 2nd- 4th items: Three (3) Virginia spoons with fiddle tipt handles, including pair of table or serving spoons, monogrammed JRF, 9"L; and a teaspoon, monogrammed Y, 5 3/4" L. 3.440 troy ounces. All with marks en verso COIN J.T. YOUNG PETERSBURG for James Thomas Young (1825-1892) of Petersburg Virginia (active from circa 1855). 6th item: Charles Alexander Burnett (1769-1849, working Alexandria, Virginia / Georgetown, District of Columbia) serving spoon with shell handle, stamped C.A. BURNETT in rectangle. 8 3/4" L. 2.050 troy ounces. 5th item: Serving spoon marked on back for retailer William Carrington, working Charleston, South Carolina from 1830-d. 1901. 8 3/4" L. 2.215 troy ounces. 6th item: KY tablespoon marked A. BLANCHARD in rectangle with eagle hallmark for Asa Blanchard, working Lexington, KY, c. 1808-1838. 9" L. 2.085 troy ounces. 7th item: KY teaspoon with Fiddle Swell handles, marked J.M. BARLOW in rectangles for James Madison Barlow, working 1835 to 1849. 5 7/8" L. 0.510 troy ounces. 8th item: South Carolina teaspoon marked GLAZE & RADCLIFF within a rectangle for William Glaze and Thomas W. Radcliff working in partnership in Columbia from 1848-1851. 6 3/4" L. 0.795. 9th item: Teaspoon marked en verso J. B. HILL within a rectangle, possibly for John Beckford Hill of Beverly, MA. 6 1/4" L. 0.585 troy ounces. 10th item: Teaspoon with bright cut decoration to the handle, underside stamped MUNRO for John Munro, Charleston, SC (1785-1809), 5 3/8" L. 0.460 troy ounces. ORDER PICTURED (left to right, first 3 overall photos): Munro, Glaze & Radcliff, Hill, Carrington, Young (2), Blanchard, Burnett, Barlow, Young (1), Elliston.
CONDITION: All pieces monogrammed. Carrington spoon has significant wear to tip of bowl. Other pieces with scattered minor wear including to tips of bowls, occasional pitting, overall good condition.