Old silver - assay marks, trying to date spoons

[cordley]

These three spoons have been passed down through the family and I would like to age them using the Assay marks.  I am guessing early-mid 1800s

I think they were given to brides on their marriage - was that a common tradition, and if so by whom - the parents?

Can anyone help. please?

[djm297]

The date letters on the spoons appear to be:
1.1815
2.1827
3.1806

All of them are English silver.

[BumbleB]

Now that you/we have the dates of these spoons, is it possible to see what kind of spoons they are?  And the sizes might give another clue.

[cordley]

I will do that, they are all teaspoons, some in better condition (less used) than others. but just to note

1.1815 - monogrammed C
2.1827 - monogrammed AF
3.1806 - monogrammed EF

I thought the people were
1.  A member of the CORDLEY family (of Weston, Nr Spalding, Lincs)  My ancestral line.
2.   No idea...
3.  Elizabeth Guy, married Isaac French in 1819;  she was b 1800 and died 1832.  I have a beautiful sampler she made.  She is my G3 Grandmother.  But the date doesn't look right?

I have them hanging in racks -   and in the following post is a close-up of the EF spoon, a more elegant spoon than the others.

[cordley]

Spoon monogrammed EF

[cordley]

Think I missed this photo

[cordley]

And one more - from the six hanging separately - I think is Victorian and is named for Phoebe Parish who was the first wife of my great-grandfather James Phillip Williams.  They married in 1873, but she died just four years later from TB.

[djm297]

The date letter for the PP spoon is 1872.

I'll double check the date for the EF spoon.

djm297

[BumbleB]

I would suggest that, at the time, sets of teaspoons were a typical wedding present.