Does anyone recognize these marks on this small silver tray?
Thanks.
Thank you but the maker is still unknown?
Can’t find any info.
No problem! And thanks for the investigation!
This very similar (identical?) mark was found on a silver tea caddy inscribed ‘Nadaraja Press, Colombo, Ceylon’ and thought to date from the 1920s.
I can find references to the Nadaraja Press in Colombo from the 1940s to 1970s, so it seems likely that it might be a local Colombo silversmith who also made the dish I am researching. In 1956 Appavoopillai Patchamuthuwent to work for his uncle who had taken over the family’s printing company, the Nadaraja Press, started by his father, possibly in the 1920s.
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