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regr
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Help me please identify.
Thank you in advance!
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georgiansilver
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Re: fork

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Made in London 1805-6 but makers mark is unreadable in this pic.. any chance of a better pic please?
regr
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georgiansilver wrote:Made in London 1805-6 but makers mark is unreadable in this pic.. any chance of a better pic please?
Thank you very much! Unfortunately, the original makers mark is not produced by read more..
dognose
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Re: fork

Post by dognose »

Hi,

The maker was Edward Lees.

I had assumed that the maker's mark was applied with a chipped punch, but Grimwade noted that on the 30th June 1806, Edward Lees entered a mark at the London Assay Office "with canted top right corner to punch".

Trev
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