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Bank robbery
bogstandard:
Geroli,
What you need to do is make yourself up a trademark, just a simple little punch with some sort of symbol on it, then stamp it on some slightly hidden part, but easily found if looked for.
I do this with anything I produce for items that get exchanged for currency, I don't actually stamp it, but machine it into the parts themselves. Once it gets known what your mark is, if people recognise it as good quality, they will search it out.
I must have 100 or so pieces now, made over a long period of time, in various parts of the world. Maybe one day they will become recognised and collectable, or end up as recycled junk.
You never know, your family in the future could be sitting on a fortune in years to come.
John
tinkerer:
I have done that exact same thing with clocks and jewelry boxes that I made. I use a code with the date and number of how many I made.
John Hill:
--- Quote from: bogstandard on October 09, 2009, 05:45:19 AM ---Geroli,
What you need to do is make yourself up a trademark, just a simple little punch with some sort of symbol on it, then stamp it on some slightly hidden part, but easily found if looked for.
I do this with anything I produce for items that get exchanged for currency, I don't actually stamp it, but machine it into the parts themselves. Once it gets known what your mark is, if people recognise it as good quality, they will search it out.
I must have 100 or so pieces now, made over a long period of time, in various parts of the world. Maybe one day they will become recognised and collectable, or end up as recycled junk.
You never know, your family in the future could be sitting on a fortune in years to come.
John
--- End quote ---
I can see it now, on Antiques Roadshow some time in the future, the big ponce saying "Now this is really remarkable, this is only the third widget I have ever seen with this little mark on it, B+B, which we know came from the cottage industry of Messrs Bogs and Bandit in the very early 21st century, 350 thousand quid I would say". :lol:
bogstandard:
A bit on the low side there John, you could double that at least.
B+B
John Hill:
Sorry Bogs but it was a very poor example and had not been stored under optimum conditions! :coffee:
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