If anyone is familiar with this mark, I'd love to hear. I have my "Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufactuers" which is somewhat limited (or I am limited in knowing how to use it!).
Thank you to all who ponder this.
Sterling Serving Set assist with mark please
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Karen Hewitt
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Sterling Serving Set assist with mark please
Hello, help appreciated with this sterling serving set, heavy pieces measure 9" long and impressed "sterling pat'd A. Stowell & Co." plus impressed mark that just looks like a blob to me- an "F" or "T"? I know Stowell would be the retailer.
If anyone is familiar with this mark, I'd love to hear. I have my "Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufactuers" which is somewhat limited (or I am limited in knowing how to use it!).
Thank you to all who ponder this.
If anyone is familiar with this mark, I'd love to hear. I have my "Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufactuers" which is somewhat limited (or I am limited in knowing how to use it!).
Thank you to all who ponder this.
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Re: Sterling Serving Set assist with mark please
Wm. B. Durgin Co.
Hello Karen
Please look here (right side column): http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_D2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and here: http://www.925-1000.com/ax_durgin.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Kind regards silverport
Hello Karen
Please look here (right side column): http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_D2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
and here: http://www.925-1000.com/ax_durgin.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Kind regards silverport
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Karen Hewitt
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Re: Sterling Serving Set assist with mark please
Silverport,
Quite amazing, I see you also interpret marks submitted, ahh, upside-down. Thank you ever so much!
The research corollary to reviewing my reference books is that the mark appears in same after I have submitted the unfindable mark to the silver forum.
Karen
Quite amazing, I see you also interpret marks submitted, ahh, upside-down. Thank you ever so much!
The research corollary to reviewing my reference books is that the mark appears in same after I have submitted the unfindable mark to the silver forum.
Karen
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silverport
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Re: Sterling Serving Set assist with mark please
Thank you for the »flowers«!
Hello Karen
During my military service I’ve taught me to could “see” and read more: Upside down text, mirrored, mirrored upside down — that was also with maps very helpful as messenger; you know maps are printed North “oriented”.
Graphic became later my second profession — and also that helps me by the interpretation of incomplete letters and marks.
You’ve already some of the same capacity developed from childhood on = by completing a letter missing in a medium.
In this case it was very simple too: The pieces had to be marked > the mark was placed in symmetry axial direction > the bowls have a bigger volume and weight as the stems > to prevent that during the strike they fall down > they’ve to be placed on the anvil in a secure position > that is almost near the position where the striker stands > normally would be struck upside up > so the bottom part of the marks would be bowls oriented. That’s it.
It helps often collectors during the observation of difficult mark compositions to “divide” the marks in individual ones — and then turn them to the right, or left, or upside down.
Kind regards silverport
Hello Karen
During my military service I’ve taught me to could “see” and read more: Upside down text, mirrored, mirrored upside down — that was also with maps very helpful as messenger; you know maps are printed North “oriented”.
Graphic became later my second profession — and also that helps me by the interpretation of incomplete letters and marks.
You’ve already some of the same capacity developed from childhood on = by completing a letter missing in a medium.
In this case it was very simple too: The pieces had to be marked > the mark was placed in symmetry axial direction > the bowls have a bigger volume and weight as the stems > to prevent that during the strike they fall down > they’ve to be placed on the anvil in a secure position > that is almost near the position where the striker stands > normally would be struck upside up > so the bottom part of the marks would be bowls oriented. That’s it.
It helps often collectors during the observation of difficult mark compositions to “divide” the marks in individual ones — and then turn them to the right, or left, or upside down.
Kind regards silverport