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30 December 1740 Joseph Adams of Walsall in Staffordshire Bucklemaker paid apprentice indenture duty for Samuel son of Samuel Jarvis of Salop.

An example of the work and mark of Joseph Adams of Walsall, assayed by the Birmingham Assay Office in its first year of working, 1773:






















ADAMS, JOSEPH, silversmith, Walsall; a hardware manufacturer, of Adams’s Row, Walsall, and also a maker of small silver wares, such as buckles, seals, tea-tongs, &c. As before mentioned, he was one of those makers whose mark was registered at London prior to the opening of the Birmingham Assay Office. He was one of the guardians of assay appointed by the Assay Act of I773.

Source: Transactions, Excursions and Report for the Year 1900 - Birmingham Archaeological Society - 1901

This is exceeding useful. Thanks Trevor

It appears that the mark clearly given above was also used at London, in addition to the mark given in Grimwade as No 3398 .
I have a buckle with the exact same maker's mark and just a Lion Passant , indicating a London origin . Or, very unlikely, the omission by Birmingham to punch their Anchor and dateletter
See http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 48&t=17577

The marks below are
Left Almost undoubtedly Joseph Adams
Right Perhaps Joseph Adams
Both found on buckles of c 1770 -1775 of London Assay