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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 422529, member: 59"]I saw something sort of possible while looking again for a match to your pitcher's mark yesterday. Waited overnight for the idea to simmer when nothing else showed up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my thinking - one of Meriden Britannia Co's marks shown in Rainwater, uses a group of letters outlined in exactly the shape as your M. Rainwater shows 2 lines of these shields - top line M, B and C, lower line E and P. Now, there was also a related company Meriden Silver Plate (both companies being part of the International Silver conglomerate) but the marks she shows for MSP are different. International had a tendency to keep using earlier tradenames as it suited them, so *maybe* they had an updated/modernized MSP mark created for use post WW2 (the latest of the ones shown on 925-1000 was last used in 1938) but just didn't use it much, meaning it has not been found often enough to show up in our online resources.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the page from 925-1000 on which the silverplate marks for MBC and MSP are illustrated. It has the MBC "shield marks" I mentioned up there ^</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_M2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_M2.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_M2.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is admittedly only a "possibility." I've run out of other ideas and sources.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 422529, member: 59"]I saw something sort of possible while looking again for a match to your pitcher's mark yesterday. Waited overnight for the idea to simmer when nothing else showed up. Here's my thinking - one of Meriden Britannia Co's marks shown in Rainwater, uses a group of letters outlined in exactly the shape as your M. Rainwater shows 2 lines of these shields - top line M, B and C, lower line E and P. Now, there was also a related company Meriden Silver Plate (both companies being part of the International Silver conglomerate) but the marks she shows for MSP are different. International had a tendency to keep using earlier tradenames as it suited them, so *maybe* they had an updated/modernized MSP mark created for use post WW2 (the latest of the ones shown on 925-1000 was last used in 1938) but just didn't use it much, meaning it has not been found often enough to show up in our online resources. Here's the page from 925-1000 on which the silverplate marks for MBC and MSP are illustrated. It has the MBC "shield marks" I mentioned up there ^ [URL]https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_M2.html[/URL] This is admittedly only a "possibility." I've run out of other ideas and sources.[/QUOTE]
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