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I just got a nice old fruit knife. It was given to me as a gift from my daughter who lives in England. It has a pearl handle and some hall marks. A lion, stands for England, I gess. A crowns is a symbol for England. TM is the maker's mark and means Thomas Marples. But there is a hallmark that I dont known what it does mean: 5
Does some one can help me on that?

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I correct myself: the crown is the city mark - Sheffield

I know some were marked by the silver inspector or what ever you call them. Could this have something to do with the weight of silver?

Hi. The lion is the symbol for sterling silver (.925), the crown is for Sheffield. The last mark is the date mark. These were typically letters inside different shaped shields. If you can post a photo of the mark that will help to pinpoint the year.

Wow guys, this is interesting.  I would love to see a pic of it

I would to Miss Jan, I tried to give a quick answer so that someone would have responded to his request, but Smiling Knife has so much more knowledge than me on the subject. He really gave alot of good info but "Pedro"needs to give us a picture to help to continue with more info.

I m travellig so I cant send right now the picture of the knife. I ll send it next friday, ok?

I`m travellig so I am not able to send a photo of the knife right now. I`ll do it nex friday, ok?

I just posted photos of it.

Jan Carter said:

Wow guys, this is interesting.  I would love to see a pic of it

I just posted 2 photos. Thanks

Smiling-Knife said:

Hi. The lion is the symbol for sterling silver (.925), the crown is for Sheffield. The last mark is the date mark. These were typically letters inside different shaped shields. If you can post a photo of the mark that will help to pinpoint the year.

I just posted pictures of the mark and knife

Robert Burris said:

I would to Miss Jan, I tried to give a quick answer so that someone would have responded to his request, but Smiling Knife has so much more knowledge than me on the subject. He really gave alot of good info but "Pedro"needs to give us a picture to help to continue with more info.

That's a good picture and to me it looks like a 5. what do you all think?

TM (T W Matthews [ L ] ) end 18th c./beginning 19th c.
TM (Thomas Morley [ L ] ) beginning 19th c.
TM (Thomas Meade [ D ] ) 19th c./1st half
TM into a rectangle (Thomas Merry II [ L ]) entered 1731
TM into a cut corners rectangle (Thomas Marples [ B ][ S ] ) end 19th c./ beginning 20th c.
T.M into a shield, two pellet over and below (Thomas Mason [L] ) entered 1733
T.M (Thomas Mynd [ B ] ) end 18th c./ beginning 19th c.
T.M (Thomas Millington [ B ] ) 19th c./1st half
T.M (Thomas Marsh & Co [ B ] ) 19th c./2nd half
T.M into a cut corners rectangle (Thomas Marples [ B ][ S ] ) end 19th c.
T.M into a sort of shield (not identified [ S ] ) 1861

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