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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 27365, member: 25&quot;]The sans serif font the label is written in was not designed till at least 100 years after they&#039;d have phased out the use of such warming pans (not bed warmer, an informal &#039;girlfriend&#039; synonym).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there was a period in the 50s to 60s when Olde Worlde was big in decor and purely decorative warming pans were all over the place. It&#039;s not impossible&nbsp; that this is a decor item from London at that period. It may have been part of bar decor at Claridges, but I very much doubt it, I suspect the label, and any similar, were simply tacked on. It&#039;s not the sort of thing a guest would walk off with in their pocket after all. Anything officially labelled would have been labelled on the underside, not the top.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a warming pan in the shed but as far as I know it&#039;s not labelled, and I have never seen one that was. The market for warming pans has been as dead as a mackerel for many years now, along with the market for horse brasses. Simply yesterday&#039;s antiques.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW,it&#039;s Claridges, not &#039;the Claridges Hotel&#039;, some hotels do not take a &#039;the&#039;. The Savoy does, Brown&#039;s does not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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