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Birmingham Silver Co. of Brooklyn, NY, and later Yalesville, CT. The company was the successor to the Goldfeder Silver Co.,founded by Sol Goldfeder in 1932. The company became Birmingham Silver Co. sometime before 1957. The marks of the company include a "puffy" crown, B S C in gothic capi...

You may have a "Satin" silverplated finish on your piece . Satin finishes never did shine ! Provide complete description of the markings so we can determine if you have pewter , white metal , nickel silver base metals and if your piece was crafted with a "satin" option on the sil...

At this late date ( without benefit of sales catalogs , phamplets or magazine advertisements ) your piece was crafted sometime prior to 1893. In 1893 the US Government discontinued backing the Greenback with silver. Western Silver mines went bankrupt and closed down. During the depression 1893-1898 ...

Thank you so much. Your reply was magnificent. I believe the legal entity aspect would come from the State of Illinois archives.( No reply yet to my eMail inquiry to Illinois State Historical Society). The Trademark aspect would show up in US Government Trademark/Patent/Copyright Office. Just have t...

The main offices of the company were in the Birmingham section of Derby while the factory was in Shelton. The company was founded in 1873 by Edward N. Shelton, Watson J. Miller, and Thomas H. Newcomb. While the company began production in the flatware line and dabbled in sterling silver and pewter ....

Anyone have background information on the Jeweler's Crown Guild aka United States Jewelers Guild active 1880's - 1925. Was this Guild a legal entity in Illinois or a "good-old-boy" marketing orgainization that facilitated output of the Rockford Silver Plate Co., Rockford Illinois to a few select jew...

Thanks wev for the surprise.
Art

Is your mark shown here http://www.silvercollecting.com/silvermarksI.html

Here is the Wilcox-Evertsen indian mark
http://www.souvenirspoons.com/pictures/ ... wilcox.jpg
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International Silver Company used the Indian Head mark on Meriden Britannia Sterling pieces after 1898 up till 1930's. Is your mark shown here : http://www.silvercollecting.com/silvermarksI.html
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WEV: I have only seen the Balanced Scales on Meriden Britannia EP pieces in (3) of their catalogs 1873 , 1878 and 1886. A star between the scales denoted silverplated Nickel Silver. No star denoted silverplated white metal. Pray tell- when , where was the mark MBC used ?
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Poole called your piece a "Silent Butler". It is shown in Poole's 1953 catalog. Course, it's original purpose was to clear the tablecloth of crumbs between courses of multi-course meals.

P.S.CO. is the mark of Preisner Silver Company , Wallingford Conn. in business 1935 to 1985. Crafted sterling hollowware pieces. Verified by Wallingford Historical Society.
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Typo / Correct spelling:
Forbes Silverplate Company

Magnificent work. Everywhere I look on this web site I see magnificent work as a result of 100's of hours of research and painstaking attention to detail.
This web site is the most impressive piece of work I have seen in my lifetime.
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Agree it is Clarence A. Vanderbilt Logo looks like the letter "V", with the letter c over the letter A inside the V Clarence A. Vanderbilt (1869- ?) was a jeweler / silversmith who started in business on lower Broadway around 1891. He was located at 110 W. 30th from around 1909 to 1913. In...

Very good site administrator. I missed the image on your site. I spent hours digging the bird/eagle/phoenix/griffin image out of the internet using 1/2 dozen search engines.
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Nancy: Found the mark of your "Eagle" on the 4th line of this page: (image No. 01-1142-importD15a) http://images.google.com/images?q=meriden+britannia+sterling&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N&filter=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; In t...

Thank you- thank you - thank you site administrator. I can pull up all the marks now.
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Empire Silver Company is still in busiiness selling a limited line of silver worldwide. They have a web site on the Internet .
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Thanks wev. My old webtv/msntv equipment does not display a menu bar. Guess I'm out of luck.
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