Real WM A Rogers or faked?

British Silver Reading Silver Hallmarks
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One of the lots I recently purchased from an estate sale had 4 6" silver plates with a very simple WM A ROGERS stamp on the back of each. Is this a real rogers mark or could it be faked? I’m sure the older woman who owned the plates thought it was real but I just need to make sure. It just seems a bit “plain”.

thanks for any insight you can give me - Stephanie
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Hi there Stephanie and thanks for joining us. The mark appears to be one of the many “Wm A Rogers” silverplate marks used by the Onieda Silver Co. after it acquired the original Wm. A. Rogers Co. in 1929.

Regards,

Uncle Vic

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Thanks for your help :smiley:

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I am new here but are you familiar with wmrogers stamp 701 , 803, 804, 806 i.have a tea n coffee set . Thanks Bre

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We are generally encouraged by management of the Forum to use a new post for each queried item. The reason for this is to allow good access for archival searches and save confusion about which item any answer to any question after your tag-along-post refers to.

The numbers 701 and then 803/4and 6 is likely factory design production or inventory numbers for the individual items in your tea set possibly a coffee pot, a teapot, cream and sugar.

The other thing we try to encourage people asking questions about product to do is to provide pictures of the items and any distinguishing marks upon them.

This saves us having to guess at the product you are seeking to discover data about. I know you said teaset but Rogers designed several sets over the decades.

Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of the design numbers for Rogers in the Yale LIbrary.

https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9916553373408651

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