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Title: antique cooper tea kettle and antique copper warmer
Post by: cybax69@hotmail.com on June 10, 2008, 06:24:52 PM

i recently recieved an antique copper tea kettle and an antique copper warmer. i have the hallmark i just cant figure out who made it or when. any help would be greatly appreciated. thank you.   


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Title: Re: antique cooper tea kettle and antique copper warmer
Post by: Sass2050 on June 11, 2008, 07:03:25 PM

Check out this site to find out what the L C means.  Thats half of it....
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://oldcopper.org/marks/a/lc3126-0663.jpg&imgrefurl=http://oldcopper.org/french_copper.htm&h=518&w=294&sz=20&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=jB41kenAXiwPYM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=74&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAnchor%2Bwith%2BL%2BC%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

Title: Re: antique cooper tea kettle and antique copper warmer
Post by: cybax69@hotmail.com on June 12, 2008, 10:16:42 AM

i found out that it is called a spirit kettle and that the word depose means registered in french. kind of like copyright here. no one seems to be able to know who the maker is even with the hallmark. still researching that one.