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From the 1906 advert posted by Trev on this page, it would appear Caldwell was just calling it Kings Pattern regardless of the full Gorham identification: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... a&start=80

Reviving this dead horse with new images. This butter sample has been overstamped “J.E.C &Co.” for Caldwell of Philadelphia. It appears the the Gorham Lion/Anchor/Gee before STERLING has been squashed along with the center of the date numbers below “PAT” (Patent abbreviation). It actually can be...

Ah! Now I see. The “G” hooks back inward. Thank you!!

Three of the same form. Two using small marks for crown & crescent after 835. One using larger marks after 835S. All three appear to be a maker resembling Hanau pseudo s535 for Nieresheimer, but this “N” shape is not right…it has extra lines on the left which might suggest I am misreading a comb...

Top row top right cup has something above that dent zone, but you can only spot it at the hosting site where the images are a bit clearer.

All about the concho belt history & use: https://sneum.com/a-breif-history-of-the-concho-belt/

Link explains Mexico Silver mark and standards expected: https://www.925-1000.com/mexican_marks.html

Follow the link in thread…seems to have begun under older system (pre-1968) even though footnotes are listing 1971 era: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... ra#p139794

Hey, thanks! Both!!

I’d say donkey, not mule. Perhaps guitar rather than lute? And why does that coyote looking dog-thing next to him have a head like a duck? There’s got to be some story this is taken from. Could it point to Spain? Or is it from a Germanic fairy tale source?

Coin silver seems possible here. The items are “julep cups”, sometimes used for presentation reasons (and maybe horse trade related). You can find the same form with a handle attached, and from Bell Brothers. Can you read the inscriptions?

A bit of Bell Brothers dating here: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... io#p174001

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British Antique Dealers Association (BADA) has sample mark and placing Manuel Garrido executing work for retailer Lopez in the mid-1930’s era. (Due to commercial nature, no linking allowed. Images did not download, but mark is clear.)

And herein a mention of Garrido Hermanos (“GH”) Madrid which may or not be related family: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... ido#p89752

No image left, but perhaps the source(?): https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... +mg#p84883

This gets even more complicated. There’s a firm marking Sheffield blades attached to very nice Sterling handles using the name”Royall Silver Company” (that’s right, two “L”’s). If they just made the stainless blades, why the silver company name? And then we get others using Royal Cutlery as the blad...

Bumping kind a late, but I saved a couple of those authentic Perth marks so we can see how blakstone was on the mark with doubts about the origins. Anyone got new thoughts on this piece?

Might call this a KoRUPPtion of a silver site, but I think this is a Bernsdorfer MF mark used in 1966 on flatware for the West German Bundeswehr Unterkunst (“BwU”). Presumably they ate in mess halls and not Hotel dining rooms regardless of what misleading internet translations may indicate. There ar...

In the future, you need to embed the images as not everyone will open links. But I’m carelessly daring like a drunken sailor so here’s your singular photo for all 2 sea:

It’s possible that one of the longer-lived German makers could have effected a change of marks. And the large “G” might also represent Gebruder for a firm of brothers. Nothing in the listed German marks under “G” or “k” seemed to be an exact match.