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The Lion Passant appears to be of the 1740 - 1756 period .

To avoid confusion there was not a separate Register for the marks of bucklemakers. Prior to 1773 they were normally recorded in the Smallworkers Register, and after that in the new all-embracing Register, which included a column specifying the main category of the silversmith such as plateworkers ...

It would appear that the partnership of Daniel Hockley and Thomas Bosworth was not a long one.
I have a buckle with what appears to be Hockley's January 1810 sole mark with a date letter for 1816/17, the mark presumably being re-used after Boswell's departure.

Daniel Hockley then appears have ...

James Mince was recorded in the London Gazette as bankrupt in 1791/92 at Bell Square, Foster Lane ( Issues 13356, 13372 and 13442).
The London Gazette has no further notices beyond the initial bankruptcy. No notices of creditors meetings, dividends , or release etc.
So it sounds as if they got ...

Added by Dognose on 21st June 2020


"At a public execution outside the Old Bailey in February 1807, the crowd was so great that the resulting crush killed twenty-seven people, one being 16-year-old William Guest, the son of Thomas Guest:

Detail recorded at the inquest:

William Guest, deceased, a ...

The history of Richard Mills is shrouded with uncertainly. Personally it would not surprise me to learn that Grimwade has actually conflated two silversmiths with the same names, one a large or plateworker, and the other a smallworker, the latter having died in 1772, the former having several marks ...

Another, probably more likely possibility, is Gabriel Sleath, who is known to have had nips assayed in the 1739 - 1755 period .

Are there any other marks ? If there's a Lion Passant and perhaps a town and date letter mark, photos of those would be very helpful

Husband of Sarah Blake - see viewtopic.php?f=74&t=45237
And father of John William Blake see viewtopic.php?f=74&t=31387

He was the son of John and Sarah Blake, and entered a mark with his mother after fathers death , as Sarah Blake and John William Blake (Grimwade No 2483)

This very neatly confirms that John William Blake (Grimwade p. 442, 738) was, as Grimwade suggestes, the son of Sarah and her husband John Blake (Grimwade 442, 737).
The mark of Sarah and John William entered in 1809 (Grimwade No 2483) was that of the widow of John Blake and his son John William ...

After the silver buckle trades decline after 1790 William Yardley diversified not only into sword furniture but other related items .

I recently purchased a fish slice with his mark, dated London 1802/03
The handle was made by the specialist haft maker Moses Brent.

It would appear from Leslie Southwick "London Silver-hilted Swords" that Moses William Brent came upon hard times as his wife petitioned the Goldsmiths' Company in 1823 , presumably for charitable relief . (Court Minutes 8 August 1823).
Leslie Southwick has unfortunately conflated Moses Brent with ...

Pure speculation, but he could be the son of JAQUES, William (Grimwade p.298) http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 74&t=53838

For an example of his (unregistered ) presumed mark please see http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 59&t=53617

Some further amplification of the term Chamberstick
These were a handled holder for a candle used to take you to your bedchamber at night, and to undress by. Whether used to read in bed and/or use the facilities during the night is unknown ! The slot in this chamberstick originally held a snuffer ...

Wilkes’s brother Richard Booth (1759-1839) a lawyer had several children one of whom was Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852) who emigrated to the United States where he became the most celebrated American actor of his generation. By his second wife Junius Brutus’s son John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865 ...

He was probably the John Booth given in the PR 1773 as Smallworker, St John’s Square [Clerkenwell] who died around 1787.

4 October 1787
The will of John Booth, Silversmith of Clerkenwell, Middlesex was proven at PCC (TNA/ PROB 11 /1157/227 ).
It leaves his business to his son, Wilkes Booth ...

His name , spelt “Bukett” in the marks register, but “Bockett” in the PR1773 was actually “Beckett”. He was sword cutler and belt maker to George III.
18 September 1767
The will of John Beckett, Sword Cutler of Saint James, Middlesex was proved at PCC (TNA/ PROB 11/932/181).

His distinctive IB ...

We have a copy of the will .

3 January 1806
Will of William Bullford of Swinton Street in the Parish Saint Pancras , Middlesex but late of Bride Lane and formerly of Bow Lane proved at PCC - TNA PROB11/1436/13
Signed 5th January 1805

He appoints William Arthur of Constitution Row in the ...