Old silver - assay marks, trying to date spoons

[ThrelfallYorky]

Ah well, I'm afraid that seems to be the only piece of silver I've found in the "junk cutlery drawer". The cats have enough delusions of grandeur already.
TY

[MollyC]

I have a collection of definitely-not-silver spoons which all started when I had a cough, on holiday in Barmouth, aged 2.  Cough mixture was purchased, then they needed a spoon and so bought a Barmouth souvenir spoon.  At home it was used to stir my hot chocolate.  The next year I wanted a Falmouth spoon, and so it went on.  Relatives brought them back as holiday presents, or sent them at Christmas.  Not many people went abroad then, but my godmother gave me a very nice Pompeii spoon, and a cousin sent one from Cyprus when she was in the WAAF.  I think there are about 30-35 tucked away in a drawer.  I must dig them out.

[Gillg]

My favourites among my collection are one from Japan, which has a fan at the handle end, and one from New York with the Statue of Liberty on the handle.  Then there's the Hildesheim Rose spoon and one from the former Yugoslavia with a deer symbol in very thin silver.  Quite a few of mine have sentimental attachments, but then plenty of the others have little meaning at all and could easily be disposed of.