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From: john
Remote Name: 208.187.159.55
Date: 09/12/2003
Time: 12:13:45 AM
Hi Ron, First of all Regensburg is one of the factories I collect so I am very familiar with them. Then the pewter is too new to be much older than 1870 or so. It is too "modern" even though it is a closed hinge. So it was probably Hanke or Regensburg. You didn't show the stamps in the top of the handle, but only Hanke and Regensburg used this technique during the post 1870 period and the open curled handle was only done at Regensburg during the post 1870 period, so it had to be Regensburg. It is sometimes virtually impossible to tell the difference between Hanke and Regensburg because some of the same stamps, roll stamps and appliques were used at both factories. The man who founded the Regensburg factory, Max Borho, had worked for Hanke and evidently brought some of the equipment with him to Regensburg. John