Mermod & Jaccard Silver Dish

Q I found a little silver dish in my mother’s belongings and was hoping to find out more about it. It’s about 3 inches in diameter. On the bottom it says ”Sterling A4780 Mermod & Jaccard’s .

A Mermod & Jaccard, a jewelry company, was founded in St. Louis about 1845. The company name was Mermod Jaccard & Co. until 1883, when it became Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co. Goodman King joined the company in 1865 and it became Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry Co. in 1905. The company became a division of Scruggs, Vandervoorth & Barney in 1917. The mark on your dish indicates it was made between 1883 and 1905.