Hello,
I have a large coffee pot that I believe is plated but I’ve not been able to locate any marks to confirm this (just the lack of sterling marks).
The stamp on the bottom is one I’ve not seen before and I’ve tried to understand it using web pages but I am baffled.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m liquidating a family estate and I’m feeling a little out of my depth.
Is it silver plate? Is it a makers mark?
Thank you in advance, it’s appreciated.
Registry mark used between 1842 - 1867.
I - class of material
B - October
E - 1855
6 - parcel
17 - day.
It is, at best, plated. British silver must be hallmarked so the lack of a hallmark means it cannot be silver.
Note that the design registration mark only tells you when the design was registered. The coffee pot will have been made some unspecified time after registration, possibly years.
Phil, why then is there a registration mark with the exact day’s date?
Good question - to which I don’t know the answer. It does seem a bit over-the-top. Maybe it’s laid down in the Act of Parliament that the exact date must be specified.
Trade and patent marks together with copyright are all registered based on time. So the registration always shows the date of application approval. It used to be displayed on each iteration of the mark itself. Approvals are created by the TMO or the Patent Office based on first come first served. Copyright is a little different. Writers and artists used to mail material to themselves to establish copyright.
This website, along with hundreds frequently uses images without the consent of the trademark holder. It can do that because there is no commercial profit realized from the display so no passing off.
The huge problem all this legislation now faces is so called Artificial Intelligence, which is neither artificial nor intelligence.
Basically the GPT Chat software grabs data on the world wide web or elsewhere without attribution and allows the user to pass intellectual property off as his own.
It’s a massive problem especially in the music industry.
CRWW
Artificial intelligence is like fake fur… It bites and pinches. It will never replace natural beauty and its potential.
But it is replacing nature.
Genetically modified crops, where the owner of the gene pool which creates the grain very often built to resist other-species invasion (weeds) and for one generation reproductive. cycle so the farmer has to keep buying from the owner, are protected by patent.
Now we’re creating artificial fauna as well as flora. – I recall her name was Dolly – it is only a matter of time before humans can create and own humans. If this can be done then humans with the ability to create more humans can also be built, vesting in an entirely artificial entity the ability to create and control entire armies of artificial humans. Who then owns the land they conquer? The artificially-created humans who fought for its gain, the artificial humans who created them to do exactly that job or the actual human who created the artificial human who created the army in the first place?
Makes Huxley’s “Brave New World” look like a simple sort of place, huh!
Meanwhile might be worth exhuming something with Paul de Lamerie or Paul Storr’s DNA on it and cloning these guys again.
CRWW
Orwell’s utopian world is today a reality. As for Aldous and the world of music:
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Actually I think I lent more on the Star Wars universe’s genetically engineered “clone troopers” created from the DNA of bounty hunter Jango Fett serving as the military of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars.
CRWW
