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    Silver hallmark help please?

    Hi all, Ive just been gifted this little silver mustard pot from a relative, it has a lovely blue glass insert, it doesn't have its spoon so Im hoping to find a age related one, plenty out there but I would like to narrow down a date, it has the following hallmarks, on the pot there is one thats illegible, then a Anchor ( Birmingham ) then a lion, ( silver) then a date code U, thats where its tricky as date letters are reused. Its in a shield box.
    The lid just has the lion and the U, anyone help beyond that for narrowing down the date?
    Thanks.


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    Looks like 1919 font. Type in 'dating birmingham silver hallmarks' on Google images and loads of charts come up to double check.

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    I would say that looks more like 1919 than 1944

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    1919 going on the shape of the U.
    "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."

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    Definitely 1919,according to my Bradbury's book of hallmarks.

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    Brilliant, thanks guys.
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    Cheers..
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    I've always thought it strange that Birmingham, my city of birth, about as far from the sea as you can get, should have an anchor as its hallmark.

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    Would the illegible one be the retailer mark?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonM View Post
    Would the illegible one be the retailer mark?
    It would be the maker not the retailer, except in cases where they are one and the same.

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    Usually the first one is the maker rather than retailer (but these are sometimes the same organisation)
    May I, without being insulting, suggest that this has had a pretty tough 100 years, it is dented scrratched all over, and has evidence of a lot of polishing, removing detail from the hallmark and the finial atop the lid.
    Was this part of a regimental dinner service that got thrown about the mess every saturday, and then polished up each week for another outing?

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    Thanks for the retailer / maker info.
    It absolutely is in pretty poor shape, I don’t know much about it’s history in the family, just one of several nick knacks collected by my Grandparents over the years. My aunt asked me if I wanted it, I just remember it as part of the collection of curios in their house so thought it would be nice to keep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonM View Post
    Thanks for the retailer / maker info.
    It absolutely is in pretty poor shape, I don’t know much about it’s history in the family, just one of several nick knacks collected by my Grandparents over the years. My aunt asked me if I wanted it, I just remember it as part of the collection of curios in their house so thought it would be nice to keep.
    Ironically the blue insert is the rare part as these normally get lost or broken, the jar itself is pretty much its value in scrap silver due to the condition (this does not take into account any sentimental value of course).


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    Thanks, Ive just found a Birmingham 1919 spoon on eBay so will be kind of cool that it will be complete ( sort of ) after all these years.
    Cheers..
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