Hall marks on gold & silver plate

SCOTTISH MARKS. 347
SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL MARKS.
ABERDEEN.
The arms of this city are : Gules, three towers triple towered,
ivithin a double tressure flowered and counter-fiowered argent. The
supporters Two
are :
leopards proper. Motto, BON ACCORD.
The town arms of three towers, triple towered, sometimes two
and one, and sometimes one and two, was also used in the eighteenth
century.
The Town Assay Office mark adopted at Aberdeen consisted of
two or more of the letters in the word, thus the letters A B D, with
a mark of contraction above, and later A B D N, as in the following
example :
VM\ VMM^
O.i /Au
Aberdeen. On a Table Spoon, handle
turned up, and ridges in front of stem,
elongated oval bowl, date about 1780.
Earl of Breadalbane.
Aberdeen. On a small Caddy Spoon,
Circa 1880. Tr. K. Macdonald, Esq.
ARBROATH.
The arms of this
laurel.
burgh are : A portcidlis beneath a wreath of
These arms were used as a hall mark on the silver worked at
this place.
/^y^] fol |?>] [fs^l Arbroath. On Fork, with shell pattern. Circa
If^^ li^ lOj IfsH 1880. Tr. K. Macdonald, Esq.
BANFF.
A matrix in the office of the Town Clerk of Banff bears an ovalshaped
seal of a boar passant, "
Insignia Urbis Banfiensis." Laing's
Seals.
The arms of the town of Banft are : Gules, the virgin standing
and holding the infant Christ.
The mark used in this burgh varied very much, but it generally
consisted of the name BANFF, or a contraction thereof.