Page 924 - Chinese SIlver By Adrien Von Ferscht

YE CHING & Company
285, Taku Road, Tientsin
circa 1890-1947+

YE CHING and YU CHANG, both of Tientsin [Tianjin] were operating from the same workshop [see separate Yu
Chang entry]. Yu Chang silver items were generally more sophisticated than those with Ye Ching marks. It is
believed that YC&Co and YC marks may also, confusingly, have come from the same workshop.

Ye Ching was both a manufacturing and a retail silversmith
Tientsin was under Japanese occupation between 1938-1945. Ye Ching continued to manufacture. It is clear that
Ye Ching was manufacturing during the Japanese occupation and afterwards, since items that were obviously
specially made for both occupying troops as well as liberating forces exist today. Because of this, it is not
uncommon for some very interesting Ye Ching items,
some even quirky, to appear in auction houses.

This cigarette case carries the Ye Ching mark and
was made for a liberating US soldier. Tientsin
[Tianjin] became a major US military base from
1945 until 1947