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Marks & Signatures MCP Server

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Marks & Signatures is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

Identify marks on pottery, silver, jewelry and glass, and look up their makers.

Uptime history 38 hours of history · worst hour 0%
38 hours agonow
24.2%
Uptime 24h
22 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
321 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 6 Nov 2026

Marks & Signatures does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 50.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add marksandsignatures-com --transport http https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.marksandsignatures-com]
url = "https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "marksandsignatures-com": {
      "url": "https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "marksandsignatures-com": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

categories
list_categories
Lists the five mark categories with the number of marks and makers in each and a link to each category page.
details
get_details
Returns the full public record for one mark or one maker: wording, type, period and dating notes for a mark; history, aliases, what to look for and look-alike makers for a maker. Includes links to the matching pages on Marks & Signatures.
identify
identify_mark
Ranks catalogue marks that match a description of a mark: visible wording or letters, symbols, outline shape, colour, how it was made, category, country and years of use. Returns pages of marks with maker, image, period and the details that matched, plus a link to the same search on Marks & Signatures.
maker
get_maker_marks
Returns the marks of one maker with images, wording, type and period, in date order. Accepts a maker id or a mark id; with a mark id that mark comes first.
makers
find_makers
Searches makers and their aliases by name across pottery, silver, jewelry, glass and other maker marks, optionally within one category or country. Returns pages of makers with place, active years, number of marks and an example mark image.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://marksandsignatures.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 90 ms 10 min ago

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Marks & Signatures — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Marks & Signatures do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_makers, get_details, get_maker_marks, identify_mark, list_categories. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Marks & Signatures working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 22 of 91 checks got a reply (24.2%), average response time 321 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Marks & Signatures as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Marks & Signatures?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Marks & Signatures need an API key?
No. Marks & Signatures completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Marks & Signatures?
It answers our handshake in 321 ms on average, which is faster than 43% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Marks & Signatures open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at marksandsignatures.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.