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mystery mark - compote (columbia?)
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:50 am
by learningsilver
The other item I picked up at the thirft store is labeled "Columbia".
It's on the bottom of this compote.
I haven't been able to find a listing for this mark anywhere.
Thank you so much for your help!
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:45 am
by 2209patrick
The Middletown Plate Company, Middletown, Connecticut, used Columbia as a trademark on some of it's products.
Pat.
Re: mystery mark - compote (columbia?)
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 8:45 pm
by Traintime
Photos are gone for comparison, but note...Reed & Barton top-marked a silverplated teaspoon Columbia in script. It is an un-determined user so far. Possibilities are numerous including ships, riverboats, a Chicago cafe, a school, etc. (This has nothing to do with their sterling Columbia pattern.) Elsewhere, another thread mentions the use of a full name like Columbia Silver Plate Company.
Re: mystery mark - compote (columbia?)
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:19 am
by Traintime
Addt. Info.: A Reed & Barton Muffineer was previously sold mis-identified as San Francisco & Pacific Steamship Company where the correct name should have been San Francisco & Portland S.S. Co. (found on Worthpoint site). The S.F. & P. was the operating line for S.S. Columbia shortly after Union Pacific Railroad gained control of the Oregon Railway & Navigation properties. This may connect Reed & Barton, indirectly, to silver services that may have been used on this particular Columbia (famous for it's early use of electric lighting). Columbia ran the Portland-San Francisco route for several years prior to this technical re-assignment, and was lost at sea in a colision related holing, rapidly going down at the bow as Titanic would a few years hence.