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Thank you Nigel. You make me feel better about my purchase!! And, if, as Buckler contends, her true strenfth was marketing, it is amazing that her marketing seems to still be having effect!! Hester Bateman's work still demands a very good price in the marketplace!! Especially in the USA. Thank you a...

buckler, Thank you very much! I sincerely appreciate the education. You're correct - Americans do think of that poor widow-lady slaving away in her cottage foundry!! I'm fairly new to silver collecting, but I wasn't quite that naive. However, I did not know that she had quite so large an operation. ...

The design of this teapot seems consistent with other Bateman pots of the time. The marks are clear and are consistent with 2 other Hester Bateman marks that I’ve seen on other websites. However, Bateman seems to have had numerous different marks. But, these marks show no sign of being inlayed or ta...

Miles, I'm concerned that all the marks discussed show M's with vertical strokes and a point that ends above the bottom of the letter. Your mark shows definitely sloped sides on the M and a point that ends at the bottom. This causes me to think that we may be looking at your mark upside down. What i...

Here is another overstrike example from Thomas Ollivant (Olliphant??) These 3 photos from different angles of the same mark come from a Cream Jug that I THINK was made by Peter and Ann Bateman - although it could be Peter & Jonathan. I believe I can clearly see the top of the PB above the TO mar...

Miles and dmay, WOW!! Are you folks great!! This is very prompt and very helpful. And, next time I will look a lot closer!! And you've pointed out a new source for confirmation of marks. Thank you for your interest, time, and help. I will surely try to be as good a forum member. All the best. Jim .

Pat,

Thank you for your very prompt effort to help. You've given me a new source to check in the future. All the best.

Jim

This 5 ½” tall Cream Jug has marks consistent with 1799 date, but I cannot identify the Maker’s Mark. The Mark was tough to photograph, but I’ve provided 2 photos in hope of showing it clearly by seeing both photos. It is clearly an “AB over WB”. Given the date, and the style of the letters in the ...

I believe the Mark shows the Vase to be made by Frank M. Whiting & Co. of North Attleboro, Mass. Most sources say that the Mark was only used by Frank M. Whiting from 1896 through the company’s end in 1940 (although another source says it ended in 1924?). I do not know what the numbers below the...