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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 2812771, member: 111"]Eh, with the nice engraving, could easily be someone's monogram, first and last initials, (or the first letters of a couple's surnames) - sometimes it's easy to determine the order, the surname initial should be larger and/or fancier, but in this case, it's kind of hard to tell, would guess 'VD' since the 'D' is slightly wider than the 'V' is tall, and the base of the 'V' is shadowed. Have no idea what that weird, sloppy thing is at the right of the monogram - surely some later unskilled addition... </p><p><br /></p><p>'Silver Soldered' was a pretty standard mark on Gorham electroplate, and though this piece does have a relatively simple design that <i>might</i> point to restaurant/hotelware, many examples of Gorham 'Silver Soldered' wares can be found that were personalized and/or just not a design that would have been intended for commercial use. The size stamp would be common on restaurant/hotelware, but capacity or length is also seen fairly often on both sterling and silverplate by Gorham, as well as other companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 2812771, member: 111"]Eh, with the nice engraving, could easily be someone's monogram, first and last initials, (or the first letters of a couple's surnames) - sometimes it's easy to determine the order, the surname initial should be larger and/or fancier, but in this case, it's kind of hard to tell, would guess 'VD' since the 'D' is slightly wider than the 'V' is tall, and the base of the 'V' is shadowed. Have no idea what that weird, sloppy thing is at the right of the monogram - surely some later unskilled addition... 'Silver Soldered' was a pretty standard mark on Gorham electroplate, and though this piece does have a relatively simple design that [I]might[/I] point to restaurant/hotelware, many examples of Gorham 'Silver Soldered' wares can be found that were personalized and/or just not a design that would have been intended for commercial use. The size stamp would be common on restaurant/hotelware, but capacity or length is also seen fairly often on both sterling and silverplate by Gorham, as well as other companies. ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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