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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 98669, member: 59"]CX - You are the second member in as many days to request help finding the maker of a sterling cane top. And for the second time I have been unable to find a maker's mark, registered in London, that matches what's on your piece. I even looked in other English cities, just in case. I'm using this site</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>which is normally the best there is, so I have to wonder whether the cane top makers just don't appear there at all. (I even scanned down several pages of marks for "cane top" in the column that shows the kind of things the relevant mark has been found on and saw none.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know if we asked AF about this situation, his reply would likely be "some blokes in a shed" and that the maker is irrelevant. But I'm still curious now that there have been 2 in a row.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 98669, member: 59"]CX - You are the second member in as many days to request help finding the maker of a sterling cane top. And for the second time I have been unable to find a maker's mark, registered in London, that matches what's on your piece. I even looked in other English cities, just in case. I'm using this site [URL]http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/index.htm[/URL] which is normally the best there is, so I have to wonder whether the cane top makers just don't appear there at all. (I even scanned down several pages of marks for "cane top" in the column that shows the kind of things the relevant mark has been found on and saw none. I know if we asked AF about this situation, his reply would likely be "some blokes in a shed" and that the maker is irrelevant. But I'm still curious now that there have been 2 in a row.[/QUOTE]
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