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Message:: [QUOTE="Frank, post: 11623411, member: 5421"]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??? [ATTACH=full]546251[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546252[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546254[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546255[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]