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Re-silver date stamp

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Stuart Norton
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Re-silver date stamp

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A re-silver job last week It felt like sacrilege, to re-silver see the date stamp on back
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Ismael Alvarado
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Re: Re-silver date stamp

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Stuart Norton wrote:A re-silver job last week It felt like sacrilege, to re-silver see the date stamp on back
Wow.. :shock:
my Great gandmother(god bless her sould) was born on that year...sadly she past away 10 years ago... :cry:
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Patrick Mackle
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Re: Re-silver date stamp

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I love those old date stamps. I have even purchased old mirrors from antique shops in hopes of peeking under the railroad board backer and finding the maker's stamp and date of manufacture. I have collected a few from old Los Angeles mirror makers and have entertained the idea of having duplicate rubber stamps made to match the originals used to date the original mirrors.
An old glass man once told me that the old wheel cut design mirrors were referred to as "Kentucky Mirrors" although he did not know exactly why, and I have yet to find an explanation.
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Patrick Mackle
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Well guess what. I just googled Kentucky Mirror and found a website for the Kentucky Mirror Works founded in 1905.
By the age of the building it would be very easy to imagine a mirror department of fellows beveling, wheel cutting, and silvering hundreds of those fancy little mirrors.
www.kentuckymirror.com/aboutUsLouisville.html
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