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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 4301656, member: 111&quot;]Other than the initial incuse duty marks (1784-86 in Chester), believe a chamfered cartouche on <i>silver</i> duty marks would be atypical - perhaps just my own perception, but have a hard time seeing the marks as other than 1885...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bit difficult to find actual images of 1819 Chester silver marks, but did find 1819 gold marks on a watch case and did a comparison:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348215[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/chester-hallmarks-photographed.162735/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/chester-hallmarks-photographed.162735/" rel="nofollow">https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/chester-hallmarks-photographed.162735/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a comparison to the 1885 silver marks from Phil&#039;s site:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348218[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Chester/Date%20Letters%20B.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Chester/Date%20Letters%20B.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Chester/Date Letters B.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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