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Hello, I am an intern at a National Park attempting to identify all our decorative arts. I found these marks on a handbag and wanted to know if you could make sense of them. It appears that it has the marks of Amsterdam and Gouda which does not make sense to me. The family was in Holland (as well as...

Thank you very much for your insight!

Tracking Francis O. Griffin, we find Chicago S.P. Co. engaged in "casket trimmings" in 1891, which seems to wipe out any possiblity for this mark being associated: https://books.google.com/books?id=qo8uUlcoIIIC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=francis+O.+griffin+chicago+silverplate&s...

Here is the embedded image (hopefully) https://imgur.com/a/tBSiqW8 Thank you for your help. Sterling silver pre-1820 is more my specialty. I did think that Sheffield was being used to denote that it was plate, or that maybe it was from a factory in that area, like a city hallmark. I did not think of...

Hello, I have a pair of silver-plated candlesticks that have a mark I do not recognize. The items are marked Sheffield, and "plated on copper" but there is a poorly formed dragon mark that frankly looks like it is wearing shorts and a t-shirt (or a romper). Does anyone know what this mark ...