help dating this birks sterling pouringer

[gidjit]

hi again looking for help dating this birks piece , where can i find a canadian date letter chart? also what does the 38/20 mean? thanks again for your help

[dognose]

Hi,

I believe that's the date letter for 1958.

The 38/20 would most likely refer to a batch or pattern number.

Trev.

[gidjit]

thanks for the answer but i would love to know if anyone has a date letter chart so i can look these up myself in the future

[oel]

Hi Gidjit,

Little history about Canadian silver marks: around the beginning of the 19th century imitation hall-marks spread in Ontario, while in Halifax a sequence of date- letters was used including an I for the firm of Birks & Son, of Montreal. Finally as from 1898 the use of fancy date-letters followed the London date-letter sequence.






Oel