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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4500465, member: 111&quot;]Believe it is <i>extremely </i>unlikely that a &#039;Victoria Regina&#039; verification mark was ever expressed with a &#039;WR&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you&#039;ve already found, it&#039;s likely this Creswick loving cup, also more likely Old Sheffield Plate rather than electroplate, was used as a pub mug, with the crowned &#039;WR&#039; verification mark for &#039;William Rex&#039; (King William IV), giving a fairly small dating window of 1830-37 (or just a little bit later).&nbsp; Though it could have been made before that stamp was placed, would guess it was likely from around the same time...</p><p><br /></p><p>Weirdly still available to see, this 2015 eBay listing is for what is likely a similar piece, but the pics are long gone:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Antique-Old-Sheffield-Plate-Loving-Cup-1-Pint-Tankard-Maker-Creswick-Georgian/351477687717" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Antique-Old-Sheffield-Plate-Loving-Cup-1-Pint-Tankard-Maker-Creswick-Georgian/351477687717" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Antique-Old-Sheffield-Plate-Loving-Cup-1-Pint-Tankard-Maker-Creswick-Georgian/351477687717</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]393832[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]393833[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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