G&H Hallmark, Coin Silver?

In a previous post, I posted photos of a hallmark on some flatware that did in fact turn out to be coin silver. I came across more flatware with a similar hallmark. The hallmark on the previous flatware had the initials G&S which meant Gale and Son. The initials on the flatware I have now are G&H which based on research and on info from the previous post, I believe those initials stand for Gale and Hayden which I guess means the flatware was made at a point in time when ownership in the company was different. I am thinking these pieces of flatware are also coin silver. Anybody have any opinions? Thanks.

Already answered. Please don’t post the same question in multiple threads. Some of us are old, and easily confused. :wink:

And still others who wrote at some length for you on the subject who just don’t like getting ignored.

To repeat, the most interesting thing about your fairly pedestrian flatware is it is a good example of early machine stamping replacing repousse and chasing journeymen by the thousands.

Mr Gale is probably why I really, really find factory-produced silverware of the 19th and 20th century boring.

Even the people stamping it out got fed up with it, hence the Arts and Crafts movement and the retreat to the Cotswold workshops and then how that too got almost completely subsumed by the industrial age.

Charles Robert Ashbee moved his Guild of Handicraft from London to the Old Silk Mill in Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, in 1902. Though the original guild dissolved in 1908, Hart Gold & Silversmiths remains on the first floor as the last continuously operating workshop run by family generations today.

Well worth a visit and a much better place to spend time and cash.

CRWW