New love token for the collection... Guess the denomination and date.

asheland

This should be fun, guess what this is engraved on and when...

asheland

Nobody likes my love token.

asheland

yosclimber

I like it, but it's a hard puzzle!
I see initials W C L, but I'm not sure what the intended order is, since they weave together like Escher.
Maybe since W has the horizontal bars, it's the surname?
I imagine there are some love token experts on here who can answer this.
Denom - unknown, since I have nothing for scale. I know a lot of them were dimes and half dimes.
Date - Liberty Seated? (1837-1891)?

LanceNewmanOCC

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morgan?
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Coinlearner

Seated dime 1887...

ChangeInHistory

1856 Seated half

CaptHenway

Impossible question.

AUandAG

impossible answer.

bob:)

astrorat

1888 Morgan Dollar

JKT

1885 Seated Liberty dime?

asheland

Good guesses! Ok, you'll like this...
It's a ladle!

It was made for Tiffany & Co. by Gorham right in the period of most commonly seen love tokens.
You will see the same style of engraving on the silver of the period as the love tokens, likely done by a lot of the same engravers...

I thought it would make a fun thread.

AUandAG

that is a ladle? It has holes, wouldn't hold much soup.....

bob:)
Fun one, got us for sure.!

oih82w8

It is a diet soup ladle...whatever remains in the ladle, you can eat...as long as it's tomato soup or broth of some sort. I like the design style of the initials but have yet to figure out what the order for them are.

ricko

I have always wondered if there were a specific, discernible order to these initials....They never seem to make any sense to me.... Cheers, RickO

asheland

Actually it's a sifter ladle (powdered sugar)
Not diet.

asheland

And I agree, I have no idea what order those initials are in, but I like them! It's artwork in and of itself when you consider those are free hand engraved in!

LanceNewmanOCC

Aethelred

I feel cheated, I tried to guess!