| 单词 | maker's mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaker's mark maker's mark n. an identifying mark struck by the maker on a piece of gold, silver, or plate; also figurative. ΚΠ 1852 A. Ryland Assay of Gold & Silver iv. 51 In this section three classes of marks are mentioned: first, the maker's mark,..second, ‘the marks of the said Company of Goldsmiths in London’..; and third, ‘the marks appointed to be used by the assayers’. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer xiii. 142 With Homer the maker's mark never obtrudes the maker, or places him between the reader and the theme. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 28/3 Many of these lovely pieces bear the maker's mark. 1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 55 Maker's mark, IH, with fleur-de-lis between pellets below in a shaped shield. 1990 Antique Collector Oct. 34 (caption) A bombé gold snuff box with unusually crisp chasing; maker's mark of Joli & Chevenard, Geneva circa 1825. < as lemmas |
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