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So we know that the torch mark was used by various manufacturers for quality silverplate, but we still don't know who the makers symbol identifies. They still look like C's to me, but I agree that the "o" may be ornamentation. I am still looking! Thanks.

So, does this mean that the torchmark was used by MANY silvermakers in Denmark as a quality mark for silverplate? And that we still have to identify the crown with the CC and the o (or ornamentation) with a cross on top to a maker. Patrick's picture with the upper and middle marks is exactly as what...

After Patrick suggested that my S&P shakers were Carl Cohr, I did a search on the internet. I didn't write it down, but just searched now until I finally found it. This is the site (Danish): http://www.cohrsilver.dk/cohr/index.htm Scroll down the marks after the history. From this I was able to ...

Thank you. This has been a real learning experience for me. It never occurred to me that my pieces could be anything other than American. I knew they weren't English. This website is a great resource.

Diane

Thank you very much. Wondered if that could be what it meant. I counted the alphabet and P didn't come up to the 1930's, sometimes used for dating. You have been most helpful. I guess(?) if it doesn't say "sterling," it isn't, no matter what country it comes from.

Patrick, THANK YOU so much!! That is the mark. Did some searching on this. Silver plated and from the 1930's. There are no worn spots on them and they do not have glass liners, which I would have thought would have corroded the metal. I have no knowledge of other than American silver. Do you know wh...

I had cleaned these up really pretty good and could find no sterling on them, although I was told they are sterling. There are not any worn spots on them where I would be able to tell if they are plated.

I have S&P shakers marked on the bottom with a crown with a cross on top and the letters c c inside the crown, below that is hexagon with a hand? inside (can't make out what's inside the hexagon) with the letter P below that. Can anyone help me identify this. Thanks.

Information I have from a list of marks from a book on Gorham is that P was the year 1883 and Q was 1884 (the last year Gorham used letters to identify the year); then they used symbols. Don't know if the P was in a diamond or not.
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