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A silver object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more silver hallmarks indicating the purity of the silver, the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith, and other (optional) markings to indicate the date of manufacture and additional information about the piece. In some countries, a national assayer's ...
Maker's Mark is a small-batch bourbon whisky produced in Loretto, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory. It is bottled at 90 U.S. proof (45% alcohol by volume) and sold in squarish bottles sealed with red wax. [ 1 ] The distillery offers tours, and is part of the American Whiskey Trail and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
George Unite (1798 – 19 October 1896) was an English silversmith working in Birmingham, England. [2] Unite was born in Birmingham in 1798 to Samuel and Prudence Unite. He was apprenticed to Joseph Willmore in 1810. [3] He worked in partnership with James Hilliard from 1825, [4] but registered his own maker's mark, "GU", with the Birmingham ...
In all four canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament, the cleansing of the Temple narrative tells of Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple. The scene is a common motif in Christian art. In this account, Jesus and his disciples travel to Jerusalem for Passover, where Jesus expels the merchants and consumers ...
Mark (sign) For other uses, see Mark (disambiguation). A mark is a written or imprinted symbol used to indicate some trait of an item, for example, its ownership or maker. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Mark usually consists of letters, numbers, words, and drawings. [ 3 ] Inscribing marks on the manufactured items was likely a precursor of communicative writing.
When the logo was trademarked in 1877 the word "Trade" appeared under the picture of William and the word "Mark" under Andrew's. [2] It followed the brothers became known as Trade and Mark, nicknames that stick to this day. Of the brothers, William Smith was the dominant, community-minded and a prohibitionist.
Timothy Tuttle formed the Tuttle Silver Company in 1890, in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.. His first work was to duplicate sterling pieces by special order. And because the pieces he duplicated were generally English sterling pieces, the original Tuttle pieces are dated in the English custom, with the crest of the reigning monarch of the times, to indicate the time period.
The second mark, which is the more commonly known by collectors and dealers, is the intertwined W and G that Westmoreland began to use in 1946 on most of the glassware. [8] In 1981, David Grossman bought the factory from the Brainard family and changed the mark. The new mark was the word Westmoreland in a circle around three lines. [8]