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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 152093, member: 111&quot;]Yeah, with just the mark, was pretty sure it wasn&#039;t G.A.B., and suspected the mark you and Susan show.</p><p><br /></p><p>Susan - feel sure those are variants of the same mark, and may be one used on a special line, perhaps for department stores, or some other specific market.&nbsp; Do remember that Patrick and I had discussed your mark, but [FLOAT_RIGHT][/FLOAT_RIGHT]can&#039;t recall any details, and don&#039;t find any record.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sheffield Plate reproductions were marketed in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, as well in the U.K., but that particular phrasing of &#039;Sheffield Reproduction&#039; seemed common to pieces from the U.S. and Canada.&nbsp; Dating could be from the 1910s into the &#039;70s, though the FTC fielded deceptive marketing complaints for decades that goods so marked were not from Sheffield, or fused plate or on copper, or even in the style of OSP.</p><p><br /></p><p>This pot might give a clue, since what appears to be the same design is found with a Cheltenham &amp; Co. mark, a line produced by Sheffield manufacturer E.H. Parkin &amp; Co. for the New York based National Silver Co.&nbsp; Parkin used similar oval pictorial trademarks for the Cheltenham line as well as their Cameo line - perhaps this mark belongs to a line produced by Parkin for another company...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41056[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41057[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheltenham:</p><p><a href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverC.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverC.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverC.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Parkin:</p><p><a href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverNOPtre.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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