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MeghanD Posts: 2 Registered: Apr 2005	posted 04-04-2005 12:18 PM [26-0328] I recently bought a set of sterling Towle Contour and in the set were 4 small serving pieces with a different mark. The mark looks like three boxes stacked up to make a Y with Sterling next to it. Any help is appreciated. I couldn't find them related to Towle at all. Thanks. IP: Logged
salmoned Posts: 336 Registered: Jan 2005	posted 04-04-2005 01:34 PM Hello, hard to be sure without a photo, but I bet those are made by RLB. I copied this quote from another posting in the general silver forum - "RLB stands for Rogers, Lunt and Bowlen of Greenfield , MA, the precursors to Lunt Silversmiths. They operated under that name from 1901 to approximately 1935." Credit goes to Brent. [This message has been edited by salmoned (edited 04-04-2005).] IP: Logged
IJP Posts: 326 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 04-04-2005 01:49 PM We can't make positive ID without a photograph or diagram, but it sounds to me like probably the mark of Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen. If so, the presence of those pieces in your set of Contour is just incidental. However, as a sidenote, Rainwater tells us that Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen, later Lunt Silversmiths, arose in a sense from the A. F. Towle & Son Co. quote: George C. Lunt, who had been apprenticed to Anthony Towle as an engraver, obtained financial assistance and established Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co., in 1902. IP: Logged
MeghanD Posts: 2 Registered: Apr 2005	posted 04-04-2005 03:52 PM Thank you both so much. That is very interesting. I was hoping there would be some link to the Towle. They are beautiful pieces. Now I really feel like I found a treasure! This site is wonderful! IP: Logged

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