Middletown Sterling?

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Middletown Sterling?

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Since it is extremely difficult to find even a single example of Middletown Sterling Silver, is this an actual hallmark of Middletown Silver Company, of Middletown Connecticut? This company is known as "Middletown Plate Company" and I understand why this is, seeing as how every piece was silver plated or quadruple plated, they must not have made many pieces in sterling silver?

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Re: Middletown Sterling?

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Hi,
You will find your mark here:
http://www.925-1000.dk/american-mfg7.htm
They made sterling hollow-ware with ``msc`` mark.
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Re: Middletown Sterling?

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Hi Aguest,

They were two separate companies, the only connection was that they had mostly the same workforce, one being set up as a kind of workers' co-op following the closure of the other.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 38&t=47414

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Re: Middletown Sterling?

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Thanks very much for the assistance, managed to find one other example of Middletown Sterling Silver and it was a bowl mounted on a stand, a kind of centerpiece, and it was number "12" while my example is number "20", interesting that the only two sterling silver pieces we could find are similar bowl-shapes, it makes one wonder just how much sterling silver was produced by Middletown; even their silver-plated wares were of very good quality!

I always liked the term "hollowware"....
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