Here you go my sweet.
According to my trademark guide at work, there is only one listing for BAC. (Of course, this doesn’t PROVE that this is who made it).
BAC=Belami Corporation. The Jeweler’s Board of Trade Cat. which I used was from 1994. They had no more info about the company. They did say that a mailer to the company came back “not known.”
My expierience of buying 20-50 jewelry items from the public every day for the last 20 years, which includes things they bought last week at the mall, and things that their great-grandma left them, would be that the “BAC9” marking is rather recent. Recent to me in the sense of since 1970. The BAC9 probably indicates the maker and style number.
Zoe. I’m sure you’re not the first person to polish your brass candlesticks since they were made in 1820. Polish them every 20 years and enjoy them.
Now, if anyone happens to inherit a Queen Anne highboy, and it’s signed by a famous cabinetmaker from Philadelphia, and you take it down to the local Dip-and-Strip shop to get the gunk of the ages off so you can refinish it----------well, pard, you just screwed up.
