American Sterling shot? cup... marks?
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 4:55 pm
Can anyone identify these marks? Possibly American?
:::: The small form of the cup seems most similar to Ancient Minoan clay drinking vessels which were mass-produced, probably for parties or celebration rituals. :::
::::: The script along the sides doesn't correspond to any Ancient Minoan drinking vessel I have seen, but it's possible that one is out there somewhere in a museum in Greece, but I've never seen a cup with ancient script written on the sides, so I think this is a "fantasy piece" that is not an accurate replica, but it displays a language that is similar to Ancient Minoan "Linear A" or the strange glyphs seen on the Phaistos Disc which is kind of a famous artifact from Ancient Minoan Culture (modern-day Greece):
The "Linear A" script is an ancient script that scientists are attempting to decode, along with whatever the Phaistos Disc is saying
There's also Linear B and Ancient Phoenician Script, so maybe the writing on the cup is imitating those scripts, but clearly the cup is imitating an ancient script in more of a "fantasy piece" way and not a "museum replica" way, never have I seen language like this on an ancient cup, the cups always depict ancient warriors or flowers or other images, but I've never seen writing like this on the side of an ancient cup (if it does exist, I just haven't seen it yet)
::::::::::: If this is an American Arts-And-Crafts maker, I'm not sure which maker this would be, and this cup just seems like something that would be sold to the tourists who are visiting Ancient Greece or the Knossos Palace Museum Shop and it is something that a tourist would be interested in buying. :::::::::: I've looked at a lot of "Conjoined T and S" hallmarks and I can't quite identify this one, some of the hallmarks are similar, but not similar enough to be a match. ::::::