Help with Silvermark on a platter

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kenimpzoom
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Help with Silvermark on a platter

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Please help ID this mark. I have looked as much as I can on the net, but still am a little bit stumped.

This is a large platter. Quite heavy.

It kinda looks like a snake on the anchor, which is unusual. And that letter at the end is strange, I think it is a G????

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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

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kenimpzoom
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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kenimpzoom
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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dognose wrote:Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

Please embed your images.

https://postimages.org (choose 'Share', then copy the 'Hotlink for forums' code) is recommended. Do not use Photobucket or Dropbox.

Trev.
Thanks so much for the help with this.
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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Hi,

The maker was F. & M. Weintraub of New York.

Gorham won a restraining order against F. & M. Weintraub in 1909 preventing them using marks that were considered too similar to those used by Gorham:

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Gorham Mfg. Company - Providence, R.I. - 1910

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Thus, your tray can be dated to around the 1908-9 period.

Trev.
kenimpzoom
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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Oh wow. thanks so much for clearing up this mystery.

An early 1900 ripoff, that is some interesting provenance.

Thanks again, Ken
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

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Interesting...there has been at least one prior query involving only a "G"...perhaps another variation on this duplicitous connivance?
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Re: Help with Silvermark on a platter

Post by gsmoggy »

Hi
I have just noticed this post,interesting for me that this G mark is also close (not the same) as the Belgium import mark gothic G.
Not sure what others think?

regards Guido.
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