From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:12:44 +0100, cecilia  wrote:   
      
   >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?)?   
   >   
   A pawnbroker ?   
      
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