The duty mark was a tax imposed in 1784 introduced initially to pay for the war with America!
These marks consist of the Lion Passant (the sterling mark, or official mark if you like), the City mark (usually a symbol like a lions head for London, an anchor for Birmingham, etc), a date letter, a makers mark (usually initials but on very old silver it may be a symbol or the first 2 letters of the surname), and finally sometimes a duty mark.
Five wins for the Ospreys, who are without 10 players on World Cup duty, marks their best start in the league for seven seasons.
More on Duty Marks Duty marks are a great help in determining if a piece of silver has age to it, since if it is present you can immediately attribute it to 1784 - 1890.
Earlier, the network's evening schedule was taken up with The Channel 4 Mash Up, with special editions of various shows in which on screen stars swapping presenting duties, marking the start of a year in which the broadcaster will celebrate its 30th birthday.
The genius-billionaire-playboy-philanthropist's renouncement of superhero duties, marked at the end of Iron Man 3, when he invokes the "clean slate protocol", doesn't seem to have worked out quite as planned, with Ultron appearing to build himself from discarded Stark armour.
POWER MORE THAN 14,000 WORKERS ON DUTY Mark Gross, a spokesman for the Long Island Power Authority, said more than 14,000 workers were trying to restore power.
Earlier this month, on a joint visit to the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Queen spoke of the values of integrity and duty that mark out the British civil service.
If so, we have a duty to mark down the politician, as we would a bore who insists on talking politics when the occasion calls for gossip.
The man on duty began marking up the map but paused when he got near Poughkeepsie, and asked whether the motorist was a Republican or a Democrat.
We are a small, close-knit community, in part because night work can be so challenging and very few researchers are willing to do the double duty of marking trails all day and then forgoing sleep at night to survey.
