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Hi there A spoon with the RG and anchor (not tulip) mark was sold by Woolley & Wallis, their sale of a private collection of Scottish Provincial Flatware, Tuesday 27th January 2009, lot 251. Date estimated as 1820-30, and I think it was described as a Greenock maker, unidentified. It is seen the...

HI there Apologies for not responding sooner, but I have been off work for a while. As Archivist of the Edinburgh Assay Office, I can confirm that the HMS (in a shield, and also HMS incuse) are the marks currently registered to Howard Stearn, a UK jewellery manufacturer. The reason his mark is not o...

Hi there Please see Silver Studies, 2006, the article by Rodney Dietert: the JM in a shaped punch has been definitively re-ascribed to James Mitchelson (active 1706-1757). According to our records, John Main emigrated to Cadiz in August 1734, so the piece cannot be by him. Best wishes Elspeth Archiv...

Not likely to be Rotherham & Sons: they were London based watch and clock importers and registered variations of the 'R&S' incuse mark at Edinburgh in 1926 and 1960. We do have an unidentified R&S maker in Dundee at about the right time (R&S in an oblong, c1825-1840) here at the Inco...

Hi there

I am Archivist here at the Incorporation of Goldsmiths. Rather than being a 1960's amateur still making today, I would say that the mark is that of Mark Charles Hutchison, trading as Mercator. The firm went out of business in 2009.

Elspeth