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<p>[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 180687, member: 106"]Thank you, Susan for this additional information. I hadn't actually considered that the three marks could be attributed to any maker without a name attached to them as well. But seeing that it could be done, I searched through my books and was able to find three examples with these marks in Robert Alan Green's <u>Marks of American Silversmiths</u>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Two of the three with the bust/lion/C also had names as part of the mark ... but neither of the names look as if they are the one that W.C.&Sons is covering. The third is shown without a name, but the book looks to have a typo right on the entry connected to these stamps ... looks like C T and then an m with something ? typed over it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Belonging to George Waring of Hudson NY circa 1850</p><p>[ATTACH=full]50386[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Belonging to William Horton - location unknown circa 1850</p><p>[ATTACH=full]50387[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]50388[/ATTACH] </p><p>C T(beats me)s circa 1850 NY</p><p>[ATTACH=full]50389[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh ... I see your other post about it not being a double stamp. You could be right, I thought that too ... sometimes I see what looks like the top portion of an "A" inside of the R in TROY ... but because the "W" at the far left also looks double stamped I might just be seeing things. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quirkygirl, post: 180687, member: 106"]Thank you, Susan for this additional information. I hadn't actually considered that the three marks could be attributed to any maker without a name attached to them as well. But seeing that it could be done, I searched through my books and was able to find three examples with these marks in Robert Alan Green's [U]Marks of American Silversmiths[/U]. Two of the three with the bust/lion/C also had names as part of the mark ... but neither of the names look as if they are the one that W.C.&Sons is covering. The third is shown without a name, but the book looks to have a typo right on the entry connected to these stamps ... looks like C T and then an m with something ? typed over it. Belonging to George Waring of Hudson NY circa 1850 [ATTACH=full]50386[/ATTACH] Belonging to William Horton - location unknown circa 1850 [ATTACH=full]50387[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]50388[/ATTACH] C T(beats me)s circa 1850 NY [ATTACH=full]50389[/ATTACH] Oh ... I see your other post about it not being a double stamp. You could be right, I thought that too ... sometimes I see what looks like the top portion of an "A" inside of the R in TROY ... but because the "W" at the far left also looks double stamped I might just be seeing things. :)[/QUOTE]
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