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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1027, member: 59"]My mother had a couple of these that I cleaned up and sent to auction with the rest of her things that none of us "kids" wanted. Plus I have a couple of my own I bought for peanuts at estate sales. The marks from the 1930's and later can very shallow and hard to see without a lot of scrutiny in just the right light. If you really feel it's important to find the maker, I would suggest strong lighting and looking on every square inch of the underside of the bigger one, including the rim, from a slant.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've never seen a "top" with marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 1027, member: 59"]My mother had a couple of these that I cleaned up and sent to auction with the rest of her things that none of us "kids" wanted. Plus I have a couple of my own I bought for peanuts at estate sales. The marks from the 1930's and later can very shallow and hard to see without a lot of scrutiny in just the right light. If you really feel it's important to find the maker, I would suggest strong lighting and looking on every square inch of the underside of the bigger one, including the rim, from a slant. I've never seen a "top" with marks.[/QUOTE]
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