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sorry, found my notes --

Joseph Lee
Lancaster and Camden, SC 1774-1814

Is this the same?



Maker not known per Winterthur.

Can you shoot the mark with more of a racking light (right and left)? Might bring out more form.

Levi B. Gay, watchmaker and jeweler, Nashua, NH 1856-1865, then Boston, MA 1865-c. 1875.

this needs to be moved to the Coin Silversmiths forum

That should have read "The marks, ALMOST always in that order..."

These pseudo marks are associated with the wholesale manufacture of (Philo B.) Gilbert, (Daniel) Cunningham & Co, NYC c 1840. The marks, always in that order, though often erratically stamped as here, are fairly common and found with the mark of retailers mostly in NYC, but as far south as Charl...

Okay; I misunderstood your reply. To your last, Charles Jewett Wingate and Frederick Wingate were 1st cousins, once removed.

Daddy Winnie's work

Who is this? Frederick's father was not a smith, that I know of.

It is hard to make out from your mark image, but check the G -- in Frederick's mark, it is noticeably below the line

He is listed as an artist in the 1860 census, watch maker in 1870, and farmer in 1880.

All I have seen is this entry (which I have truncated) in Goodspeed Publishing's History of Tennessee , 1886: HILL, James Bryan ; jeweler of Fayetteville, Tenn ., was born 6 June 1832 in Fayetteville. Lincoln County, Tenn.: son of Ebenezer and Mary Tate (Bryan) Hill. . . He was educated in the schoo...

I have seen this mark several times on pieces with a Massachusetts (or at least New England) provenance. I am also inclined to John Beckford Hill of Beverly. He was the largest jeweler/watchmaker in the area and was in business for 60 years. I added him and his son to my project a while ago, but hav...

It is likely a journeyman's mark from the shop of whoever Conning was buying his flatware stock from -- Wood & Hughes was one of his major suppliers, but there were undoubtedly others.

While I feel pretty steady on American marks, my knowledge of English makers is best described as rudimentary. This is a set of 4 3/4" spoons, all identical in size, decoration, and monogram. One is marked for 1783 by Robert Cruickshank, while the other five are only marked with a lion and what...

Henry Tyler Brown (1830-1893), Providence RI. He was in various partnerships, then on his own as H. T. BROWN & Co, 1875-1880.

They were the sons of the Samuel Bell you mentioned.