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Correction: My text should read James Kenzie not John Kenzie. The IK mark shown for him is similar to that shown as used by Kelly & Kavanagh.

While most silversmiths made a bit of everything, James Kennedy is said to have been a box specialist but on those he used I.K (I have a couple of his snuff boxes) so while Bennett lists him under IK as well, I'm not sure of the reason for this. Auctioneers often incorrectly attribute snuff boxes wi...

Here is the full set of hallmarks, a little sharper than previous images:

I recently acquired this silver snuff box dated Dublin 1817 with the maker's mark MF in a rectangular reserve. Silvermakersmarks shows this MF mark on a creamer dated 1824 but with no maker's name shown against it. I cannot trace any other Irish silver with this mark so has anyone any idea as to who...

Nice find Ben. Your spoon is much earlier than the 1830s. Samuel Purdon worked from 1800 at 3 Charlotte Quay, Limerick according to A Celebration of Limerick Silver and Bennett mentions that date too as the start of his working life. Also, the trefoil device on the spoon (its significance is not kno...

Indeed, it could be what's left of a STERLING mark. I can see what looks to be 'ING' but the letter before can't be a 'G' as you suggest but would have to be 'L' if STERLING but doesn't really look like an L, perhaps just badly distorted. What looks like an 'R' over to the left is incuse so not the ...

Actually, looking more closely at the photo of the silver cup mark, perhaps STER is the blurred mark at top.

This is a very rare Cork maker's mark, that of John Whitney. He is mentioned in Cork Silver & Gold but the authors do not show a mark for him in that publication. He was apprenticed to George Lee, 18th December 1762 per Cork Silver and Gold and worked as a silversmith from 1770 to 1788 according...

Some more information from The Finial, March/April 2010: In reply to a query about a spoon by John Ricketts, reference is made to a set of of five Hanoverian rattail tablespoons by John Ricketts in an Australian family collection. The same mark as on your tankard (middle of the three marks illustrat...

Very nice find! While John Ricketts is mentioned by Bennett in 'Irish Georgian Silver', he only shows a photo of the base of a silver bowl with the mark of a crown over IR, stating 'possibly the mark of John Ricketts' (in his later book, 'Collecting Irish Silver', he confirms attribution to John Ric...

Hi John,

Many thanks for that very useful information and adding more knowledge to what we know about these Cork silversmiths. William Heyland is also mentioned by Bennett as working between 1784 and 1808.

Would you by by chance know when James Heyland was born?

Gordon

Hi Brian,

Really interesting to see the two cream jugs with the same monograms. I wonder when over the past 240 years they got separated but we shall never know.

All the best,

Gordon

Brian, could your cream jug be the one sold in New York in 2001? Quote from my previous thread: "Can anyone please point me in the direction of any other Carden Terry cream jugs of this period, i.e. circa 1775-1780? I know a major auction house sold one in New York in 2001, "the cream jug ...

By the way, I seem to have given an incorrect link to the thread on my cream jug; it's actually:
http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=39303

Gordon

Hi Brian,

Yes, there are initials on one side; see image below:





The handle is reeded; see image below:





Gordon

I have an identical cream jug to yours Brian. Perhaps Carden Terry made them as a pair. Refer http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=3930 Photobucket has pretty much killed millions of images all over the internet by stopping 3rd party hosting unless one pays $400 a year so my photos no ...

Hi Phillip, This looks similar to the mark shown in Jackson's for c.1996 with a dot between the J & K but with minor variations in the K. Given the oval shape of the King's head and Hibernia on your spoon, I'd date it to between 1821-1825 but strange there is no date mark or Crowned Harp. My 180...

The maker's mark could be that of Joseph Kinselagh but I would like to see sharper close-up photos of the hallmarks. If the maker's mark is the JK of Joseph Kinselagh, it's unlikely this is by the referenced Cork silversmith, Joseph Kinselagh due to the existence of the hallmarks on the stem. Joseph...

Hi Robert,

The only other Irish 'W' I can trace is James Whitthorne, mid 18th century but it isn't his mark either. Refer Jackson's page 635.

Gordon

Hi Robert,

No, you are correct, that isn't Joseph & William Wall's mark. I'm unaware of any unrecorded marks for this family.

Gordon