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Repousse cup holder

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:48 pm
by Granmaa
Here is a high quality cup holder from Chester 1913. The maker's mark is slightly obscured but it looks like ? over RCA over L; the first letter could be a J. Can anyone tell me who this is?

Miles

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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:04 pm
by carling
Jay Richard Attenborough & Co Ltd, 142, 144 Oxford Street, London. Goldsmiths, silversmiths, jewellers, watchmakers. Here's the mark as it appears in Maurice H. Ridgway and Philip T. Priestley, The Compendium of Chester Gold & Silver Marks 1570 to 1962 (Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors’ Club, 2004).

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Not easy to scan this big tome with a flimsy A4 scanner!

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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:06 pm
by Granmaa
Thankyou very much Carling, I shall have to get that book.

Miles
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