Wilcox error stamp?

[Danny54]

This is a 3 piece butter dish, very ornate

I am looking at the makers stamp, would like a time frame for this stamp, and does the apparent error in the stamp create a reareity in this piece?
Thanks for your help in advance.

[silverly]

Welcome to the forum. It is called a chattered mark. I don't think it's rare. Always avoided, but it happens.

[Danny54]

Thanks for the reply, any idea what period this may be from, based on what I've read, this mark was before the company was sold and before and a new mark(international) was being used, would it put his piece before 1900?

[AG2012]

Hi,
would it put his piece before 1900?[quote][/quote]

1880 - 1898.

[AG2012]

Btw. marks are not always perfectly struck.Not important at all if everything else is OK, i.e.completely irrelevant in regard of the value (unlike coins or postage stamps).

[Danny54]

A wealth of knowledge here, thanks alot
one more question

Is the 29 possibly the catalog # for this piece, kinda exciting if this was only the 29th piece they made as a company

[AG2012]

29 is internal factory reference number, e.g. design number, nothing to do with sequence of production.
Cheers