Help Identifying Silver Makers Hallmark - Silver Spoon

[CoinCollector567]

Hi,

I would appreciate any help on identifying the marker's mark on this silver spoon I found. The other hallmarks are for sterling silver, Sheffield and 1891, so Victorian in age.

The maker' mark is the letters P . A Inside a rectangle.

I have tried all the usual websites and books I use to find maker's mark but this time no luck!

If you have any info please help!!
Thanks,
Coin Collector

[PapaLazarou]

Peter Aitken

[CoinCollector567]

Thanks, but he was registered in Glasgow not Sheffield.

[PapaLazarou]

Looks like it might be a Glasgow hallmark to me (tree, fish and bell)

[sixgun]

The Crown and Lion is Sheffield.

 

[sixgun]

i looked at this yesterday - This is Sheffield hallmarked Sterling. 
The marker's mark is confusing.

You get the year not just from the letter and its shape - the other marks, their arrangement and orientation are also important.

We have crown, lion and then year letter. The capital year letter is inside a square with chambered corners. 
There are no other marks excepting the maker's mark.

There is more than one Peter Aitken. There was a Peter Aitken I in Glasgow. It is Peter Aitken I to distinguish him from Peter Aitken II. So you would have a Glasgow mark and in any case he was much earlier than 1891. 

The thing is the mark in isolation looks like Peter Aitken I

Peter Aitken II was in Yorkshire. 

If you look at PA II on this page you will see it comes from a spoon but the maker's mark is not the one on your spoon. The silverware the mark is taken from is also too early for your spoon.

https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Glasgow-KR.html#P

So is there someone else registered in Sheffield using PA or did Peter Aitken II have another mark at a later date?  

[CoinCollector567]

3 hours ago, sixgun said:

i looked at this yesterday - This is Sheffield hallmarked Sterling. 
The marker's mark is confusing.

You get the year not just from the letter and its shape - the other marks, their arrangement and orientation are also important.

We have crown, lion and then year letter. The capital year letter is inside a square with chambered corners. 
There are no other marks excepting the maker's mark.

There is more than one Peter Aitken. There was a Peter Aitken I in Glasgow. It is Peter Aitken I to distinguish him from Peter Aitken II. So you would have a Glasgow mark and in any case he was much earlier than 1891. 

The thing is the mark in isolation looks like Peter Aitken I

Peter Aitken II was in Yorkshire. 

If you look at PA II on this page you will see it comes from a spoon but the maker's mark is not the one on your spoon. The silverware the mark is taken from is also too early for your spoon.

https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Glasgow-KR.html#P

So is there someone else registered in Sheffield using PA or did Peter Aitken II have another mark at a later date?  

Thanks for the research!

Yes the makers mark is a mystery and this is only the second ever hallmark that I have not been able to find out exactly what it was. I buy and sell antique silver so get quite a lot of different hallmarks passing through. I might just have to sell it on and explain that I am not sure of the maker!

Thanks again for the research.