Set of 12 Antique Sterling Silver Bread & Butter Plates by Schofield featuring a Reeded Border. They come in their Original Protective Silver Bags with Separations for Each Plate from Albert Pfeifer & Bros Jewelers of Little Rock, Ark.These have never been offered for sale prior to this listing and have been in the Family for Generations.
Each plate is marked with the Schofield Co hallmark of B Eagle S Sterling 925/1000 Fine 1340 (pattern number) which is actually the Gothic German H for Herr Schofield.They also have a lovely script monogram...please see photos.
Each Plate Measures: 6 1/2" in diameter.
The 12 Plates Weigh: 1097.4 grams (35.28 troy ounces = 2.42 pounds)
In excellent condition for their age with minor wear and light scratches from normal use as expected. No repairs.
Thank you to a very knowledgeble and generous person who sent this information which helps describe these plates and their history in better detail. He does have a website and is an individual and not a company where he answers questions and clarifies pewter and silver questions about Stieff, Kirk, and Schofield. If you want to learn more, the website is called The Stieff Company and you can discover it for yourself.
The mark you are showing is that of HEER SCHOFIELD and after 1927, SCHOFIELD Company. The letter you are seeing as a B is actually a gothic Germanic H for HEER.
The firm of Baltimore Silversmiths Mfg. Co. was short lived... less than a year... and had very little production. Frank Schofield left the firm he was working for ... Baltimore Sterling Silver Co. (Stieff) in the spring of 1903. In Feb. 1904... he was burned out by the great Baltimore fire of Feb 1904 that burned down over 1/3 of downtown Baltimore.
He re-emerged with a minority ownership in his company... now called HEER SCHOFIELD in 1905. The mark never changed even after 1927 when he bought out Heer's widow... so these could be 1905 or 1955. Frank died in 1947 and his widow rang the company until she sold it in 1965 to a Baltimore jeweler... CAPLAN's. Caplan's in turn sold it to STIEFF in 1967. Stieff shut down the patterns in 1977.