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Prompted by the William Rodgers and sons story I searched the net for John and George Rodgers and, lo and behold, the THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, BRITISH REGISTER OF LITERATURE, SCIENCES, AND THE BELLES-LETTRES of 1831, vol xi, Jan-Jun, lists, under patents granted: "To John and George Rodgers, Shef-...

Coincidence? In the 1840's, Joseph Rodgers & Sons took out an injunction against another Sheffield manufacturer, John and William Nowill. In short, the accusation was that it would appear that the Nowills' discovered that one of their employees, a knife grinder called William Rodgers, had a fat...

Thanks for those insights, Trev. The "palimpsest" hypothesis would explain the seeming chronological paradox - I do not know how likely it is, from a technical perspective, considering that the entire body of the pot is worked from one piece of metal and the mark is placed in the logical s...

Thanks again. In that case the marking on my teapot would seem like it is either a cruel joke or a minor sensation. I suspect the former, though it doesn't make sense to me. But I know to little of the subject matter - perhaps there is a reasonable explanation. To provide some background: This desig...

Would you let me know the source? I'm asking because this here site gives a different mark for Old Sheffield plate by Rodgers: http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate__OSP4.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; None of the other Rodgers hallmarks I found online from the official assay reco...

Thank you so very much, that is fascinating as well as puzzling - but now I have something to work with at least. Right now I can think of two possibilities: 1. The hallmark on the pot is a forgery - though I would not know why they would then have not counterfeited the historically correct hallmark...

This is a reproduction of Christopher Dresser's famous proto-modernist teapot from 1879. Like the original, it is silverplate with an ebonized handle. I would love to know who made it (and specially why), but have no clue as to the provenance or age - though it does not seem terrible recent, at leas...