Help with sponsor mark and date please?

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Un-identified maker, Sheffield 1990

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OK, I can go to sleep. :rofl:

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Douglas Pell Silverware. Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Founded in 1972, carries a large range of silver and silver-plated giftware in the UK. It is the silver giftware supplier to Harrods and other prestigious names world-wide, including Asprey & Garrard, Royal Palaces, Liberty, Fortnum & Mason, Goldsmiths. Its ‘Yeoman of England company’ (established 1897) concentrates on making silver plated items, both in giftware and tableware.

So no longer unidentified.

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The quote in Irving’s Cider House Rules works:

“Good night, you Princes of Maine! You Kings of New England.” The line is probably poached from Horatio’s benediction of Hamlet later in Shakespeare’s play:

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

The reference to flights of angels is generally thought to be Horatio wishing his friend gets into heaven despite his having committed suicide. In those days you were lucky even to get into the churchyard leave alone anywhere celestial if you MAID-ed.

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Hamlet doesn’t commit suicide. He is struck by Laertes poisoned sword tip. I doubt even the Jacobean Jehovah would deny him heaven for that. Stabbing Claudius and forcing him to drink the poison chalice might be grounds for pearly gate denial however.

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Thanks for your swift reply.

So the rose is the Sheffield assey mark? But the sponsor mark is sawbridgworth Hertfordshire?

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Silver Import Marks

The Hallmarking Con

Sheffield, Tudor rose (1975-present).

1990Sheffield, 1990.

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Here are the details regarding this mark:

  • Company Name: Douglas Pell Silverware.

  • Location: Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.

  • Founded: 1972.

  • Sponsor’s Mark: The mark consists of the initials DP.

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The British assay offices do not place any location constraints on their customers. Goldsmiths and silversmiths are at liberty to send their products to any of the assay offices.

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Thanks again guys for your help.

I’m not sure about the Shakespeare quotes

I think some people might be sniffing too much silver polish

All the best

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Or not enough.

The temptation to sniff silver polish is somewhat ameliorated by the fact its original manufacture was proximate to a horse livery stable which provided it with the necessary ammonia. But hey, each to their own, I suppose.

Ever visit the Crown and Anchor pub on Neal St? You should. that was where the representatives of the Sheffield and Birmingham guilds met in 1773 to decide who should have which insignia.

It made no obvious sense that Birmingham, a landlocked town, ended up with the Anchor. But Sheffield, which started with the Crown, was already using the Yorkist rose for gold and I suppose “
a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.

A line connected with a double suicide in yet another of the Bard’s plays. You will recall the problems between the Montagues and the Capulets?

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