Unusual Small 5” spoon
Looks like hallmark WH on back and the words ‘sterling’
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A clearer photo of the marks would be helpful. If you’re using a phone, even one a few years old, you might be surprised at what happens if you hold the phone very close to the tiny marks - my iPhone automatically shifts into macro mode, and can produce clear shots of things like this.
In any event, the word STERLING steers us almost certainly to the U.S. or Canada. In a quick search, I can’t find a suitable “WH” as the silversmith, however. Perhaps Whiting Manufacturing (NY/MA).
At that size, and with that shape, it might be a bon bon or nut spoon. Makers in the Victorian era were very adept at coming up with odd shapes of flatware with very specific purposes. 
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I should probably wait until you get a clear picture but I happened to be looking at some William Rogers silver this afternoon with this mark on it:
The set included included a pair of these double-bowled spoons which I told them was for sugar based on a listed description for a similarly odd-shaped Lunt spoon rather than anything particularly fitted for purpose.
However this mark is on 'plate although the pattern looks the same.
Your inquirer thinks it is WH not WR so probably something different.
CRWW
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