Featured Tiffany salt & pepper

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Frank, Jan 28, 2026 at 4:44 PM.

  1. Frank

    Frank Well-Known Member

    I know I'm making this harder than it should be, but I've spent the morning inventorying my collection. I've been looking for marks and was even able to identify one piece by the date mark when the makers mark was almost totally rubbed smooth.

    These things, as simple as this ought be, are confusing me.

    It's a set of Tiffany & Co. salt and pepper shakers. Individually, they weigh 97.4 and 92.1 grams and stand 5 1/2 inches tall. One has more holes in the top than the other. Which is the salt and which is the pepper?

    My main question is the marks:
    "TIFFANY & CO." "MAKERS" "STERLING" "925-1000", and "C". See the photos for placement.
    On each one, to the left of the word "makers" is "4491" On the right, on one is the number "899" and "1202" on the other.

    The "C", as I understand it, denotes a manufacture date range between 1902 and 1907. The other numbers, from what I can find, are pattern and order numbers. The list of pattern numbers I found indicate that "4491" ought to fall in 1877. Those dates don't jive. Am I missing or mis-interpreting these numbers? Did they put those numbers on there deliberately to give me a headache?

    I'm sure they date from the 1902-07 period, but that raises the question what the numbers represent.

    Help???

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  2. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    '4491' would be the pattern number, and the 'C' is the Director's mark of Charles T. Cook, indicating manufacture between 1902 and 1907, which would be when your shakers were made - the pattern would have been designed in 1875 and could have been produced any time after that, even decades later. Larger and/or more holes would be for salt.

    ~Cheryl


    https://www.925-1000.com/Tiffany_Date_Code.html
     
  3. Frank

    Frank Well-Known Member


    :happy::happy::happy: Thank you, thank you, thank you. It didn't occur to me that the number was merely the date of the pattern.

    I think I'll put everything away and fix supper now.
     
  4. charlie cheswick

    charlie cheswick Well-Known Member

    not tempted to do it in style Frank ? ;):playful::woot:
     
    Any Jewelry and Frank like this.
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