UffDa
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OK, this is a knife forum, but believe it or not, there is a spoon forum. Not much activity though.
Anyway, I have two silver serving or cooking spoons that belonged to my maternal grandmother. The story I remember is that she brought them to the USA in March 1912 from
Russia by way of England. I was told that they were made of coin silver. Maybe melted rubles. Over the years, I have occasionally tried to find out something about them. The
only hallmark is the number 12 in a circle. Not much to go on.
Both sets of grandparents were from Russia, but the story of where exactly they were from changed over the years. They never talked about their life in Russia. I had heard that
they came from St. Petersburg and/or Kiev, but the manifests of the ships they came here on show Riga, Latvia and Lunna, Belarus.
Anyway, I have two silver serving or cooking spoons that belonged to my maternal grandmother. The story I remember is that she brought them to the USA in March 1912 from
Russia by way of England. I was told that they were made of coin silver. Maybe melted rubles. Over the years, I have occasionally tried to find out something about them. The
only hallmark is the number 12 in a circle. Not much to go on.
Both sets of grandparents were from Russia, but the story of where exactly they were from changed over the years. They never talked about their life in Russia. I had heard that
they came from St. Petersburg and/or Kiev, but the manifests of the ships they came here on show Riga, Latvia and Lunna, Belarus.
