Can you help identify these marks?

[mimawalker]

Can anyone help me identify these marks on this silver container?

http://www.biblestorysongs.com/images/c ... rthing.gif

http://www.biblestorysongs.com/images/c ... gmarks.gif

Thanks,

Mima Walker

[SilverSurfer]

The letters are gothic capitals, EP?S, for electroplate ? silver. Usually ?=N, for nickel, but this is different, maybe a B for Britania metal? In any even, the piece is electroplate silver over some type of base metal. The numbers are some sort of mass production code.

SS

[mimawalker]

Thanks for the help. They indicate what this is made of. How enlightening!
MW