Thanks Waylander for the comments. I had seen a couple of messages in the forum about trumpets and the J. Dixon & Sons connection, and was thinking along the same lines. I wonder if the "H" might be connected to the William Hutton and Sons company, which combined with JDS around 1930? The marks ...
I bought a forty piece set of antique silver flatware, at a great price in a little store in N. Alberta. I was told the original owner was English. I thought the set was sterling because: 1. It looked like sterling, even though it was old--no sign of base metal. 2. The store owner believed it was st...