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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 102070, member: 25&quot;]In almost all cases, the exact maker of some antique or old item is quite immaterial. The thing itself must stand or fall on its merits, design, workmanship, utility, beauty, all things that can be established without knowing if it was made by B Brothers or A and Sons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some few makers add significant cachet and value, but these are usually easily established.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hence my shed comments all over the place, it is a search for something of no meaning, since in most cases, with the makers utterly forgotten, they might as well be any other utterly forgotten people, the generic men in sheds.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last couple of decades have hammered &#039;brand name&#039; into people&#039;s minds so firmly they cannot forget them when they are meaningless.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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