Help needed to identify silver Tea or coffee pot

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Struggling to identify,
I work for a charity, trying to find some information
Thank you

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Please provide a better quality photo of the signatures.
A crown inside a shield, the letters F, R and perhaps C, and the letter I inscribed in a rhombus. Am I seeing this correctly?

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I’m not sure what these marks indicate, but there are some things I believe we can say for certain.

  • This is not sterling silver from the U.K. If it were, there would be true U.K. hallmarks.
  • This is not sterling from the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. If it were, it would, at a minimum, be stamped, “STERLING.”
  • This is not sterling from pretty much any country in Europe. Most European countries have a system for hallmarking sterling silver, and this doesn’t look like any of them.

I can only conclude that this is silverplate, source unknown. As such, it has decorative value only.

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And decorative value, it has. This pot is absolutely stunning! And the craftsmanship is remarkable.