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REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Marine Corps Dollar

I am offering for sale a very rare Coin Silver tablespoon by Ephraim Brasher (Silversmith to George Washington and creator of the gold Brasher Doubloons worth millions)
Flatware attributed to him between 1786 and 1805, made in two parts, struck twice EB as typical. Spoon is 7 inches long.

While most of us can't snag a doubloon, this piece provides a worthy link.

Please feel free to ask questions. I have done many deals here over the years all with buyer satisfaction.

**** UPDATE ****
As discussed below, I will attempt to obtain certain authentication before continuing this offer for sale.


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  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This coin gets my approval image
  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ebay bucks deal today
  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ttt
  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    new item added
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, the Ephraim Brasher spoon is a whole new level of cool. image

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,344 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, the Ephraim Brasher spoon is a whole new level of cool. image >>


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  • 2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭
    What type of cereal would you recommend?
    WTB... errors, New Orleans gold, and circulated 20th key date coins!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Has this spoon been authenticated as being actually made by Brasher? I just talked to John Kraljevich who has a lot of expertise in such colonial era items and he told me that there were other silversmiths during that era that used the EB hallmark. In any event that is a very neat early American relic.

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  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Yep, sorry to disappoint, but this isn't a Brasher spoon -- just another guy with the initials EB. Brasher had three commonly encountered marks. The best of these is the oval mark that is the identical punch used on the coins (usually seen alone). There are also a mark in a square cartouche with big, blocky letters and a BRASHER mark (all spelled out) that's sometimes seen together with a "N. York" mark. Both of these are more common than the oval mark that coin folks like.

    Brasher also always marked near the other end of the tang, regardless of which mark was used. This location is wrong for Brasher. Also, these punches were made by two different marks, neither of which matches Brasher's known marks or even the typographical style of the E B, which is more or less the same on all of his marks.

    The spoon is of approximately the right era, though the engraving on the front side was done much later.
    John Kraljevich Americana
    Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭✭✭
    John,

    Thank you for the analysis. I will discuss this with the company that I purchased it from.

    I will make the appropriate changes in this listing.
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,344 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Brasher Marks

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