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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4312019, member: 111&quot;]There shouldn&#039;t really be any question as to the pattern, as Bakersgma and I both pointed out, the basic design remains the same (we both identified it very soon after it posted).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bit difficult for me to see multi-motif patterns as &quot;problematic&quot;, since they&#039;re a kind of wonderful remnant of the heyday of the American silver industry, when the manufacturers supported the designers&#039; vision, with the production and maintaining of numerous dies a considerable expense.&nbsp; The prolific Gorham made a number of multi-motif patterns, some with 20+ variants, the figural &#039;Nuremberg&#039; pattern with well over hundred variants, and the hand-crafted &#039;Hamburg&#039; with endless variants, but all are recognizable as part of the same pattern.&nbsp; Tiffany also produced quite a few multi-motif patterns, with their &#039;Lap Over Edge&#039; pattern not only having a huge number of variants in motif (also made plain), but also in technique, with plain or hammered background, the designs engraved or etched, and/or the occasional applied element, sometimes in a different metal, but still with the same basic form.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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