http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/dating-mexican-silver Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/dating-mexican-silver/comment-page-1#comment-14982 Alex Tue, 18 May 2010 23:02:48 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=1857343#comment-14982 The second letter in the post 1979 marks aren't the workshop, the second letter is the first letter of the maker’s name and the number represents the order in which the maker registered his mark. MT-01 happens to be a Tane mark but the maker's name was likely something like Manuel Teran Lopez (Latin American names use their middle name like we use a last name) and he was the first T to register his mark. The second letter in the post 1979 marks aren’t the workshop, the second letter is the first letter of the maker’s name and the number represents the order in which the maker registered his mark. MT-01 happens to be a Tane mark but the maker’s name was likely something like Manuel Teran Lopez (Latin American names use their middle name like we use a last name) and he was the first T to register his mark.

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