[Sca-cooks] Arms, was Mairi Ceilidh

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- AEllin Olafs dotter <aellin at earthlink.net>
wrote:

>  I did ask if a merchant would
> have a device of any sort 
> - like a trademark, or shipping marks (I've
> worked in modern import 
> trade, and can reel off shipping marks for many
>  department stores 
> without stopping to think) but it seems that
> this came much later. Pity.


Not true.  According to the Oxford English
Dictionary, the earliest recorded use of a
trademark is 1571.  In 1571, R. Matthews was 
given letters patent to use a half-moon as his
mark.

Huette


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