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Before you go paying $20 for an online "expert"...you should maybe check with these, people...in Glasgow..Scotland.. ..they do free evaluations...you just send good quality pics...not the linked one,s...one,s that you have taken,especially the bow with WR Schuster on it...and they will send you a report...just check out there site...i,ve dealt with them in the past and,..they are very good,....
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All I have is an iPhone 5 to take pictures with.
If the number on the bottom is merely painted under the glaze, that was probably the decorators mark. If so, the maker will probably remain unknown.
It's nice to see an early example that has survived intact...not all of them have.
Years ago I was invited to buy a collection of a few hundred cups and saucers. Upon entering the house I was directed to the dining room where the collection was on display in a curved glass china closet. You might wonder how 200 to 300 cups and saucers would fit in one piece of furniture? The owner cheerfully explained: "I had to snap the handles off the cups, so they would stack. But, I saved all the handles, so they can be glued back on." That was one of my "I still can't believe it" moments.
Things like that happen more than you might imagine....a similar story was told to be by Avril,....her aunt used to work for the NCR...an, American Cash Register company....they were big in my home town of Dundee, having arrived there in late 1945....Avril,s aunt was a maid..at their Gentlemans club,..in 1953 the American golfer Ben Hogan, visted there whilst playing at the Open Golf tournament..at Carnoustie...which he won...Avril,s aunt was charged with looking after him, and his entourage,...she must have made a good job of it,because , Ben Hogan, asked her if she had any sons, and she said yes 2, then he gave her a set of golf clubs that he,d used at some point during the tournament......the se were Hickory shafted....
approx 6 years later, there was a very severe winter..and in Aunt Agness,s house, things were pretty grim...there were power cuts, and money was tight...and in order to keep warm they were using the open fire , and...Agness when finding out that there was no kindling,to start the fire, decided to cut the heads off that set of golf clubs,.and use the shafts as kindling.......What would that set be worth today, if all in one piece,...i cannot imagine...
