Yesterday, Ed Bush pointed out that Mr. Carder didn’t use a “C” as his middle
initial. At least not during his American years. This all comes about because the
middle initial of the engraved name of Mr. Carder on the silver overlay vase
contains a middle initial “C”. Could it be that is how he did it during his English
years?

Dick Stark suggests that on a vase of limited value that has been tracked to
collections for quite some time now, it wouldn’t be a forgery. Not enough value
justifying that.

Ed Bush on reflection suggests that notwithstanding what he said yesterday,
there may be a good explanation.
I had just resolved not to bother you with this issue again when I noticed something on Carder’s signature on his naturalization certificate that is illustrated on page 10 in Dimitroff’s book. At first glance it looks like an initial “C” is present. However this appears to be Carder’s style of finishing the letter “k”. I conclude that the engraver of the silver overlay, working from a signature provided by Carder, mistakenly took this to be the middle initial “C”.