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Sounds a bit like a few of the lock ins at local pubs after the Freemans parties at the Goldsmiths Hall a good few years ago ! Burnisherboy

Trev, Many thanks for the Round advert and all the other examples. I appreciate that Rounds were one of the big names in the plated trade and it is remarkable how much interesting detail is to be found in the contemperary adverts. Rounds are said to have started in 1847 and to have supplied Hutton's...

Trev, The AP mark noted for Thomas Prime may have been meant to represent ARGENTINE PLATE. Your exellent photo seems to show the typical surface of marks punched through an applied silver foil surface as per Close Plate on Steel but this time on a cupro nickel base , trade name "Argentine .&quo...

Hallo Trev, The advert is published in Keith Pinns 1999 publication, "Paktong" on page 73. I wasn't sure about the copyright position in using a copy from the work. There seems to be a number of contenders for the title of "Original Inventor" of the alloy as per the advert and it...

The advert for Nash's improved British Plate, with a suggested date of 1835, suggests that "his name is stamped on the spoons, knives,forks and all other articles manufactured by him" Has any one ever seen this mark on any plate or plated wares? Burnisherboy

Are the marks on the tray and the snuffer and would it be possible to post a sharper view of the mark? The symbol does not seem to relate to a registered platers mark although a better reading of the gothic font might help with the maker.