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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 291467, member: 59"]British "date letters" for sterling do not apply to plated items. There are a <b>very</b> few makers of plated wares that developed their own internal dating schemes which have been documented, but if Thomas Prime had one, I am unaware of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only possible (and rather general) clue in the marks on your fork would be the MP (if that's what it is on the left.) "Magneto Plating" was a method developed by Prime and first used in 1851. So it should be later than that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 291467, member: 59"]British "date letters" for sterling do not apply to plated items. There are a [B]very[/B] few makers of plated wares that developed their own internal dating schemes which have been documented, but if Thomas Prime had one, I am unaware of it. The only possible (and rather general) clue in the marks on your fork would be the MP (if that's what it is on the left.) "Magneto Plating" was a method developed by Prime and first used in 1851. So it should be later than that.[/QUOTE]
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