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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10300094, member: 10944"]Great information Cheryl. I have a handful of British teaspoons with stem placed bottom marks that are extremely distorted. I always wondered how they got that way. I’m glad to read your explanation as to how that may have happened. I also wondered what happened the marks on the spoon I’ve posted. In addition to being worn, something is clearly wonky about them. Being reshaped after being hallmarked makes all the sense in the world. I too had thought about Irish or Scottish being an option. </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not great at getting definitive results when researching crests but that is a good route to go down here if the marks can offer little in the way of direction. The main motifs were recycled so often that I often have a hard time pinning a variation of them down. I guess more practice can only improve my odds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10300094, member: 10944"]Great information Cheryl. I have a handful of British teaspoons with stem placed bottom marks that are extremely distorted. I always wondered how they got that way. I’m glad to read your explanation as to how that may have happened. I also wondered what happened the marks on the spoon I’ve posted. In addition to being worn, something is clearly wonky about them. Being reshaped after being hallmarked makes all the sense in the world. I too had thought about Irish or Scottish being an option. I’m not great at getting definitive results when researching crests but that is a good route to go down here if the marks can offer little in the way of direction. The main motifs were recycled so often that I often have a hard time pinning a variation of them down. I guess more practice can only improve my odds.[/QUOTE]
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