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I was just given what i think is Sheffield Plate Silver but know nothing about identifying the origin HELP? |
Travel Info i have found that it isIdentifying Sheffield Plate EPNS Silver can anyone help with identifying the maker or the value ...anything it has hall marks Travel Tips Judging from your pictures and the photo of the mark. I would say that your pieces are not English but actually American. Most likely made in Massachusetts or Connecticut sometime between 1900-1930. Many American Manufacturers during this period tried to imitate English silver marks in order to boost sales and lead the buyers to believe the wares were English Silver quality. Contrary to popular belief, Sheffield Silver plated wares do not have to be assayed at the Assaying office, so they do not bear hallmarks like solid English silver. Genuine Solid silver hallmarks always consist of a Township mark (Sheffield's is a Rose)), The English standard mark ( a lion passant), a date letter code and occasionally on newer wares the purity standard Mark(.925). Most likely the maker of your wares is the Webster Silver Company or the National Silver Company. Both used marks similar to yours and created holloware in similar shapes. I would suggest looking up your mark in Dorothy T. Rainwater's fine book "Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers". This book has page after page of silver marks from hundreds of American makers from the gilded age of the silver craft to the 1960s. |
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