From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   I have seen a silver tray, abiout 30 icm diameter, three feet.   
      
   On the back it has:   
      
     GOLDSMITHS   
   SIVERSMITHS COMPANY   
   112 REGENT STREET   
      
   The siver marks are   
      the compny mark - looks like   
            G&S CO   
               LD   
     Lion Passant   
     Leopard's Head   
      u   
     crowned heads of George V and Queen Mary   
      
   So: assayed in London in 1935, and marking the year as the Silver   
   Jubilee, by a company that became (the web says) part of Garrards   
   later.   
      
   Beneath the marks appear (apparently scratched into the silver by a   
   steady hand) numbers   
              323   
          23977   
           20090   
      
   I've not noticed such numbers before.  Who might have put them there   
   (the manufacturer?  the retailer?) and why (stock control?)?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)