The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
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turned out by the potteries now IS pt intended as anything but a marketase Imitation of the old work and repf- duces a few of the old time scenesR American cities that the English ma CTS began to put on their StanoR shire ware after the war Of lsf2.
 Previous to the Revolution, Amen cans had used the Oriental porcelatr brought from China, Then they use Lowestoft for a while before the ex pcrtatIon of the staffordshire china be came general. This fell into great dis favor after the war or i012, While tht Dutch were trying to siege the trade ot | Great Britain with this country, thsH English manpfacturers deteTmined toH hold on to it by every possible means. So they began to put American scenes1 and views on their porcelain and evenI flattering inscriptions in order to rel tain the trade that has been so profit |. able All these plates and hoIiew piecesf date from a period subsequent to thel war of 1912.
 The falsifieation of old Americans silver is fn at least one case well worthl the while of the bric-a-brae fakers The Paul Revere pieces will bring
 uch at $50 Or $500 when they ard properly authenticated. All the spoons I an dother bits are marked with thV Y name "RevereH printed in block letter Tor an oblong die Theer has been N great deal of. the old Revere silverE since his father before Paul was ais a silversmith. Fergers of this old silver who go iihold of old spoons and had the nam Revere marked on the back found thatI they had ono great diflealty in paS lsing off their, genuine spoons havk ibeen smoothedt down by long usag&l I But they are still remarkably clear an{l ldistinct. If the new dies are madH ~4,s lnot show the result of wear which fa lso plainly noticeabIe on the genufne lpieces If.i lon the other hand, the lett Hers in the name Revere" are sd lstanlped as to- have the appearances of having been biunted by wear, they look Icoarse, and the expert can detect the fraud at a glance.
 T 1t is practically in the Revere spoons
 alone that the fakers have attempted
 to work Small creamers, as they arc
 called in the business, brings as mucI
 as s250, but it is impossible for then
 to be so manufactured as to deceive
 the experts. T With the English sllver seld in thRi
 country the result iS very different
 That can easily be fraudulent and VI, appear perfectly genuine to any btu the most careful expett. old English silver dating from theeast quarter oi
 the eighteenth century,fs not so ex'
 tremely rare. .A
 It is previous to this lime that the , specimens are so rare. Etom the time of Queen Anne. for instarce, there are few speciments to be fAd. There ts
 ccmparatively little of, he time of eGorge 1. But from hls dayonward the
 supply is much greater.
 All the genuine old English silver 1 bears four marks which thN rules of
 the old silversmiths guildeI required , These are large pieces of ge4uine old
 silver It is these symbols hat give
 a piece authenticity and thusyalue.
 It is q very common thtngfor the |. English dealers who send then wares | to this country to make e modern tankard in the fashion of somepf the , antique pieces in the museumA The , four symbols will be cut from aNpoon s and inserted into the cup by solSr or
 by melting the piece into the sllNr Of = the tankard.
 n This process, of course, andowst the z new tankard with all the value oian
 antique tankard. This makes the pNce Q | worth so much that the loss or pc s 1 genuine spoon Is not constderea Y V portant This same trick IS tried VIZ q tal Kinds of pieces. The owner ny 2 nothng more to do after this than ! < give the old tankard a rew hard punnL isf and then have them remover from s,l S y silver. By doing this he VII give v s fakes every appearance OF senain' l. ness. ai