MINED A LITTLE FLORIDA STERLING SILVER

Saturday at a garage sale here in Florida I found these great English Sterling Silver pieces. Believe it or not, it was very late in the day and they had sat there all day. No TreasureNet types to recognize the British Hallmarks. The largest weighs 489.1 grams,the next weighs 449 grams, and the sugar bowl weighs 119 grams. I asked how much and was told $2.00 each. Check out the inscription on the large pot.

Beautiful pieces--please tell us what  the  full inscription says...great find--congrats !

Full Inscription: "FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE 834TH ENGINEER AVIATION BATTALION 1944"

Great find - I recently thought about tag sale finds because my wife used to force me to go tag salin' with her on Saturday mornings. I hated it for about 5 minutes. Once you go it gets addicting because you run into some really cool stuff! Is there a good site that might offer reference material so that I might better be able to identify sterling silver at tag sales? I think I have heard of Sterling, Sterling Silver & Silver Plate.

Here are two great sites for information on sterling:

http://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html

http://www.silverrecyclers.com/Calculators/ster_calculator.aspx

Scout around on the first one (home page etc.) you will find silver marks and other info from all over the world.

It looks like a Birmingham England city mark that dates to 1913. What is the first letter of the makers mark?   " _ CD", Is that an H or a W?

H. C. D. = Henry Clifford Davis

H. C. D. = Henry Clifford Davis

Cool, thanks.

$18.44 / Where does silver go from here?

That unit earned a Presidential Unit Citation for their efforts building airfields to support the allied assault of Fortress Europe. They arrived in France on 7 June, 1944.
They also constructed fields in England.

more about the 834th:

http://www.ixengineercommand.com/units/834th/index.php
http://ibiblio.net/hyperwar/////USA/USA-A-Omaha/USA-A-Omaha-9.html


Here's an account from a soldier who served in that unit:
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1/?file=dday_0052p1
from a website post:
"The 834th was broken into four "serials" (A-1 through A-4) and they all landed on 7 June on Omaha. As the advance unit for Omaha Beach, the 834th was scheduled to land on 6 June but could not due to fighting on the beach. They had to wait off shore till the next morning. "