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<p>[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4394023, member: 13874"]I don't carry this pattern in my silverware inventory so I can't check on that [USER=59977]@Born2it[/USER] but thank you! OTH, I recently had something pointed out to me by a customer re another wellknown American s.p. pattern, first issued in 1937. </p><p><br /></p><p>The pattern name is stamped on the back and I thought it always was, <i>First Love</i>. The customer informed me that some pieces in her service (inherited from grandmother) did not have the pattern name inscribed on it and others did! I looked through several individual lots in my inventory and found this to be true, some had the name on the back, others not. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know why this is but can only guess that it was being manufactured by different plants and in different years. The name-less ware is not necessarily older as some would like to think. Different plants used different backstamps even if the front design was identical. This is true of many other patterns as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4394023, member: 13874"]I don't carry this pattern in my silverware inventory so I can't check on that [USER=59977]@Born2it[/USER] but thank you! OTH, I recently had something pointed out to me by a customer re another wellknown American s.p. pattern, first issued in 1937. The pattern name is stamped on the back and I thought it always was, [I]First Love[/I]. The customer informed me that some pieces in her service (inherited from grandmother) did not have the pattern name inscribed on it and others did! I looked through several individual lots in my inventory and found this to be true, some had the name on the back, others not. I don't know why this is but can only guess that it was being manufactured by different plants and in different years. The name-less ware is not necessarily older as some would like to think. Different plants used different backstamps even if the front design was identical. This is true of many other patterns as well.[/QUOTE]
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