PLATE-MARKS

include hall-mark, sovereign’s mark, name mark, and date mark, which are an index to quality, name of maker, date and place of manufacture. The duty of a aying and stamping plate is done by the Goldsmiths Company of London. Their marks are a leopard’s head crowned, and a lion pa ant as the sovereign’s mark. Affiliated with Goldsmiths’ Hall are the following a ay-offices: Birmingham (mark, an anchor), Chester sheaves and a dagger), Exeter (castle with '3 towers), Newcastle (3 castles), Sheffield (a crown), Edinburgh (a thistle), Glasgow (tree, fish, and bell), Dublin (a harp, crowned). There is no hall-mark for English silver plate now.