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agphile Posts: 798 Registered: Apr 2008	posted 04-24-2008 06:33 PM Eccentric Design Tongs and, I suggest (though not really my period or specialism), provincial - Exeter 1818. Two local makers with WW marks, William Woodman and William Welch, are known to have made tongs. IP: Logged
bascall Posts: 1629 Registered: Nov 99	posted 04-24-2008 07:11 PM The marks are not right, but what a great site. Beautiful silver. 1818 it is. Thank you! [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 04-24-2008).] IP: Logged
agphile Posts: 798 Registered: Apr 2008	posted 04-25-2008 05:15 AM I don't have a reference book for Exeter marks of this period other than the revised Jackson which does not include every mark used by every maker, but I'm pretty sure both makers will have used more than one punch during their careers so I would still be inclined to think of, say, Welch as the likely candidate. However, I see what Clive Taylor means about the form of the tongs suggesting a later date. If these are spurious marks, I find the choice of marks to use a little puzzling, though. IP: Logged

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