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Message:: [QUOTE="gimbler-dave, post: 298294, member: 313"]News from the Sheffield Assay Office: " ... I can confirm the dates you have for the pieces, The date Letter E  was used  to commemorate the bicentenary of Sheffield Assay Office in 1973. Replicating the date letter used in 1773. The  Makers Mark/ Sponsors mark SC&LCo is that of  Shreve Cramp & Son Company who registered with the Sheffield Assay Office on the 16th August 1972, the company was based in Boston, Massachusetts and they had articles made for them at Copper Bros and Roberts and Belk in Sheffield hence the Sheffield Hallmarks." A follow up inquiry clarified that it was Shreve, Crump & Low, not "Cramp & Son": " ... The articles are Sterling Silver, as shown by the Lion Passant, 92.5% Silver. Just gone back to the register, these are handwritten documents and the writing is terrible!  Yes I can confirm Shreve Crump & Low." We will likely proceed with eBay auctions on both tankards in the next week or so, but mentioning both our investigation, and the response by the Sheffield Assay Office (who was a delight to work with). I remain puzzled at my failure to turn up even one other comparable, or even advertising mentioning the limited edition sterling tankards, but the Assay Office response strongly supports the conclusion that the tankards are genuine, so we now have enough information to tell the whole story in our listing. The population remaining of the original 800 tankards (100 of each of eight designs) must be so low that the tankards rarely surface in public sales and are works that are generally unknown to collectors. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way!   Dave[/QUOTE]

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