I have a set of six spoons in a small leather box, they are all exactly the same. Please help me determine what all the hallmarks mean.
You will be able to find your answers at Silver Makers Marks using the “Makers’ Marks” and “Hallmark Identification” sections.
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London, 1905, Maurice Freeman.
Phil, don’t you get the feeling that we are increasingly dealing with a new species of human - the common sloth.
I still tend to say - give a fishing rod instead of a ready-made fish…
You don’t have to be rude. The different makers marks seemed to oppose one another. As a librarian I learned and taught people to ask an expert when your research still left questions. Sorry to take up your time.
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I was introduced to the brown sloth in Panama about 17 years ago. I watched them in the trees surrounding our encampment. I drew the conclusion that their quiet approach to life was not, as the Spanish name for them suggests, because they are lazy, but to conserve energy and enable them to survive on scarce nutrients.
If you wish to insult your guests on this forum, that is between you and the Forum, but you are also displaying a somewhat parochial attitude to a fellow mammal who would not exist was it not a superb conservator.
I had left Panama City with two Americans there with me, on the advice of the US consulate which proposed to airlift out of the country following the US Invasion to deal with Noriega. In the event two US Military helicopters arrived and picked us up off the beach.
I say us but, learning I was Canadian, they left me there with the sloths and all the camping equipment.
I thought at the time how the life of the sloth compared very favourably with the hectic life we humans insisted upon. I drove the jeep loaded with camping equipment north and settled in a hotel in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. I stayed there for a month before flying out and home.
CRWW
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These modern double standards… I’m not being rude. I’m being honest. I should just shut up and observe…
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Christopher, are you suggesting that the survival instinct applies to all living organisms, including humans, and has nothing to do with laziness as a sin? And by the way, you’ve had a very rich life. Have you ever considered publishing a book?
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I tend to leave reconciling Darwinian absolutes with moral suasion to my Catholic friends who are much more adroit at it than I.
But since you asked, the primary function of every living organism is survival and free will is only allowed to interfere with that, on a consistent basis, by one species.