ausfire Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 I have searched unsuccessfully for any reference to a register of touchmarks. I think it would be a good idea to have a listing of all the touchmarks used by the smiths on this site. It's interesting to see the variety of designs and I believe a permanent record should be kept. Perhaps I am missing something and it has already been done. If not, I'm willing to start the listing with mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Something like that was started over on anvilfire a while back, but I don't think it went very far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillion Brian Grant Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Well, can we try and get it going on here I think that IFI IS USED alot more than anvilfire now anyways plus it would help newer smiths know what designs are being used Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted November 6, 2017 Author Share Posted November 6, 2017 OK so maybe IFI, as the leading blacksmith site, should show the way. Here's mine: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 The old silversmiths’ hallmark registries and the like were organized by the government of various countries, centralized, and — critically — mandatory. Unless we are all going to go to the trouble and expense of listing these with our respective countries’ trademark registries, I honestly don’t know how useful this would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 This is a NICE idea but who is going to be doing the work for this idea, registering them, keeping track of them, answering questions, enforcing the rules if they are enforceable without some governmental agency (what country) making the rules.? Then the $$$ funding is coming from where, who is the bookkeeper? and ending back at the enforceable question again. Certainly not fair to load this onto IFI folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 On 7/11/2017 at 1:08 AM, notownkid said: This is a NICE idea but who is going to be doing the work for this idea, registering them, keeping track of them, answering questions, enforcing the rules if they are enforceable without some governmental agency (what country) making the rules.? Then the $$$ funding is coming from where, who is the bookkeeper? and ending back at the enforceable question again. Certainly not fair to load this onto IFI folks. Whoa! Nothing as formal as that. We have threads here - Show us your bottle openers; Show us your letter knives; Show us this and that. Just show us your touchmark will do. Might be useful for others to take ideas from ... and just interesting to see the various styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillion Brian Grant Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 On 11/10/2017 at 2:39 AM, ausfire said: Whoa! Nothing as formal as that. We have threads here - Show us your bottle openers; Show us your letter knives; Show us this and that. Just show us your touchmark will do. Might be useful for others to take ideas from ... and just interesting to see the various styles. That's what I meant I didn't mean do anything truly legal lol, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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