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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver, post: 1244772, member: 6202&quot;]Possibly they are to identify the particular person who worked on the piece in a firm employing several silversmiths. On older pieces I have seen these ascribed to journeymen, but I have also seen disagreement on this. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to an article about journeyman&#039;s marks.</p><p><a href="http://www.ascasonline.org/ARTICOLOGIUG195.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ascasonline.org/ARTICOLOGIUG195.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ascasonline.org/ARTICOLOGIUG195.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Note that he mentions one modern silversmith who used them (Stuart Devlin) so there&#039;s no reason why others shouldn&#039;t have done so too, and for items other than flatware. Ultimately, I suspect there is no truly authoritative answer to your question because they are unofficial marks, not part of those prescribed by law.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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