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chase33 Posts: 362 |
posted 10-25-2009 07:46 PM
  
Hello I recently ran across a piece that was stored in the back of my cabinet and had forgotten. When I went to do some research I ran into a little problem. It is marked on the bottom Whiting Co on one side and Sterling 2869 on the other side. I can't find where Whiting used this particular mark. All of the marks I have found are the lion holding a w. This is a pretty big piece measuring 14 long by 10 wide by 4 tall. Is it a Whiting Manufacturing piece? A Frank Whiting piece? Or some other Whiting Company? And any ideas about the age? Thanks Robert IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 10-28-2009 03:01 PM
Stylistically and by form, this is a typical early 20th-century serving piece. What I often think of as a bread tray, although they must have been used for other things...I am not familiar with this Whiting mark, which has the look of a late-ish kind of mark, generally speaking. Could this bowl be later than it looks--a holdover, or sort of wedding-gift-silver that carried on for years past its style's currency? IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 10-28-2009 04:34 PM
The grape and leaves motif carried on for a very long time. Target has a soup ladle in it in last year's online catalog. It is also found in new Judaica silver. And I do see inexpensive imported silverplate using it in stores currently. Most of what I have seen in grape and leaves has been in silverplate, indicating that this was very popular among middle class silver buyers. There is not a lot of sterling in the style. In common language, the pattern is called 'Vintage Grape' after the 1847 Rogers pattern. This continues as an enduring style today. IP: Logged |
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chase33 Posts: 362 |
posted 10-28-2009 06:28 PM
Thanks for the info. Would Gorham have marked a piece with this mark after it had purchased Whiting? While Whiting is not my usual area of expertise, it seems like the few pieces I have seen are marked with the Gorham/Whiting mark. Robert IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 10-28-2009 09:43 PM
Unfortunately there is much about marking we do not understand. AFAIK, there are no records surviving that explain why and where certain marks were used. My own semi-informed guess is that the marks sometimes refer to the way the item would be sold. Some types of retailers and jobbers got oddly marked items so that the company could trace just where their silver was going. This was to enforce trade agreements and territories. IP: Logged |
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