The word "bechce" may actually be "hecho en" meaning made in . The figure 925 refers to the cufflink's silver content: it is Sterling silver. For more information about Mexican silver and marks, please see http://www.925-1000.com/mexican_marks.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; You'...
Frankly, I don't know -- but I'm willing to guess that it has something to do with pattern / inventory numbering associated with the 1961 trademark change from E. G. Webster & Son to Webster-Wilcox. Again, this is only a guess.
From your excellent description of the shield - with the letter D at the bottom - your card tray was probably made by the Prill Silver Co., Inc., of New York, New York, manufacturers of sterling articles from c. 1940 to present. (Rainwater et al., Enc Am Manuf, 5th ed., 188.)
From the information you provided, you can assume three things: (a) the piece is American-made, as it lacks any other information; (b) the piece was made by -or for- the Gorham Company; and (c) 925 parts of its 1000 parts metal content is silver, the standard for Sterling silver. Nothing more, I'm a...
Excuse me for possibly misunderstanding, but if you are looking for W. M. Mounts as a maker, I believe those words stand for "white metal mounts" rather than a name. (I couldn't find an American maker named W. M. Mounts, either.)
Without seeing any photos, your description sounds like the marks of silverplated flatware made for Sears Roebuck and Co, Chicago, Illinois, by various companies and sold, in this case, as Salem Silver Plate (first used in 1914.)
I'm not quite sure what you'd like to know. The EP ~ one of Gorham's silverplated lines - was known as Elmwood Plate, marked differently from other lines, perhaps to show a variety of good, better, best - if you know what I mean. The third line YC778 may refer to the pattern number and if your two p...
Assuming its the pattern you'd like to identify, go to Replacements.com, and under their SILVER Tab, select N for manufacturers and peruse the six or seven flatware patterns they have listed for Newburyport. That might help you zero in on the manufacturer and year of the spoons you're trying to ID.
The Quaker Silver Company, Inc., of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, made sterling and silverplated holloware (and trophies, novelties, and pewterware.) They were in business as early as 1926 but bought out by the Gorham Corporation in 1959. [Rainwater, et al. Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufact...
Your photos are gone, but the described marks match those found on page 200 of the Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers , Rainwater et al, 5th ed. Salem Silver Plate, one of the tradenames/trademarks of silverplated flatware patterns manufactured for Sears Roebuck & Co., Chicago, IL. Fi...