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Edwin Wallace Trask maker's marks

Compare 2 source-linked mark variants recorded under Edwin Wallace Trask. These are reconstructions for comparison, not source photographs or authentication evidence.

Source location statements
Aurora, Illinois
Source date statements
(b.1838-d.1923)Active from c.1853, jeweler & retailer. Partnerships: Trask & Rowe, later Trask & Plain and Trask & Gentry in Galesburg, Il.

Mark variant 1

Edwin Wallace Trask: Trask; line reconstruction.
Line reconstruction
Edwin Wallace Trask: Trask; oxidized reconstruction.
AI-assisted oxidized reconstruction

Source-recorded mark text: Trask

One unbordered serif wordmark reads TRASK.

Low confidence comparison reconstruction.

Mark variant 2

Edwin Wallace Trask: E.W.Trask, pure coin; line reconstruction.
Line reconstruction
Edwin Wallace Trask: E.W.Trask, pure coin; oxidized reconstruction.
AI-assisted oxidized reconstruction

Source-recorded mark text: E.W.Trask, pure coin

Two unbordered serif rows read E.W.TRASK and PURE COIN.

Low confidence comparison reconstruction.

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