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help dating this birks sterling pouringer
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:44 pm
by gidjit
hi again looking for help dating this birks piece , where can i find a canadian date letter chart? also what does the 38/20 mean? thanks again for your help
Re: help dating this birks sterling pouringer
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:22 pm
by dognose
Hi,
I believe that's the date letter for 1958.
The 38/20 would most likely refer to a batch or pattern number.
Trev.
Re: help dating this birks sterling pouringer
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:33 pm
by gidjit
thanks for the answer but i would love to know if anyone has a date letter chart so i can look these up myself in the future
Re: help dating this birks sterling pouringer
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 2:18 am
by oel
Hi Gidjit,
Little history about Canadian silver marks: around the beginning of the 19th century imitation hall-marks spread in Ontario, while in Halifax a sequence of date- letters was used including an I for the firm of Birks & Son, of Montreal. Finally as from 1898 the use of fancy date-letters followed the London date-letter sequence.
Oel