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Hello, It's good to see our research being put to uses other than silvermaking. The Sheffield Assay Office register shows H G Long & Co entering a mark from 220 Rockingham Street, Sheffield in 1894 and another as a limited company in 1906. There's nothing in the register for Long & Hawkesley...

Hello, On the assumption that the much worn marks on the silver top show it was sent to the London Assay office by WHW in 1894 there are two candidates in William H Walter and Walter H Webber. John Culme's book on London Gold & Silversmiths indicates their two marks were almost identical in 1894...

Hello, Check out these sites: http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.theassayoffice.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; It looks as though Robert Thornton registered his mark in 1866, too late to be the maker of your 1824 spoon. ...

Hello Miles, A note in my lists of makers records an attribution of AG in a rectangle with a star on a 1785 spoon to the Edinburgh maker Alexander Gardiner or Gairdner. Unfortunately there's no cross reference to where that information came from to point you to a reference book. The mark doesn't app...

Hello Miles, A browse through Jackson's looking at Georgian script capital P suggests this one isn't. The more I look at the second letter the more it looks like a script capital S. The down stroke within the bottom circle could be the tail of the letter S carried over part of the J and almost right...

Thanks to you both. Kavanagh added to my lists.

Mike
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Hello again Trev,

I see I've incorrectly referred to Kehoe's master as Smith. It was of course Stokes who died in 1771.

Mike
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Hello Trev, The apparent anomolies in Keyhoe's biogaraphy intrigued me so a liitle research was called for. A Darby Keyhoe born Dublin 1747 can be traced on the web. The suspicion that his father was dead by 1756 can be inferred from Isabella signing him over to Mr Smith at the tender age of 9 years...

Hello Miles,

I've not previously seen the IL mark with two pellets nor the IK mark with (what appears to be) a pellet. Do you have any detail as to who registered these please?

Regards,
Mike
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Hello Miles,

Jackson's page 304 has Freeman active from 1753-78. The tongs could well be a little earlier than you thought.

Regards,
Mike

Hello Tom & Paul, The London gothic letter sequence for 1756-76 looks to be the right one and only the D for 1759 or the O for 1769 would fit. None of the known candidates with initials TD for an item assayed in 1759 registered a mark comparable to the one shown here. Incidentally Grimwade's bio...

Hello again Paul, A check on the Edinburgh Assay Office website http://incorporationofgoldsmiths.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; shows no mention of a Matthew Caw but does refer to a Matthew Craw active from 1781-1816. Whether we are looking at one person or two seems lost to hi...

Hello Susan, There was a Thomas Duffield Streetin christened in Holborn London in 1768. His father was Richard and that agrees with page 673 of Grimwade's biography for the silversmith. There is a record in the 1841 Census of England of Thomas Streetin a silversmith aged 70 living at Great Sutton St...

Hello and welcome to the forum. Page 563 of Jackson's suggests J McKenzie first appeared on the scene in 1827, too late it seems to have made this ladle. Matthew Caw is a possible candidate for the piece. Jackson's pages 550-1 suggest the date and the shape of the punch mark are right and further su...

Hello, The figures on top of my pair of apostle spoons are identical to the one you have. Because the rectangular feature above the saint's right hand looked to me like an axe head and the feature below his hand curves slightly and widens I took this to be the axe shaft. That made me believe the fig...

Hello and welcome to the forum. The diamond mark indicates the item was imported and assayed in Birmingham. The lower case "e" is for the assay year 1904-5. The .925 mark confirms the item meets the Sterling standard. I suspect the sponsors were Danziger & Isaacs who registered a mark ...

Hello Miles, BAO, having given a negative response to being asked if they had a record of the L&R mark registered for use in 1806, then make a part case out of that to invoke Clause 7. If an unregistered makers mark is a part reason for erasure potentially there is a lot of scrap stuff out there...

Hello David, For further confirmation of Salmoned's identification a check of 7 items with a Chester date letter in the 1901-26 series shows every one to have what appears to be a straight base to the mark and two turned 90 degrees. Your ID of the makers is correct. Although Birmingham based they al...

Hello, The mark could possibly the one identified at item 3514 of Grimwade's publication on London Goldsmiths which he attributes to David Field but whom he names as Daniel at page 748 in a biographical account. Field is said to have been active as a silversmith from circa 1727 and died in 1770. Ano...

Hello Miles, My maker's mark list shows Edward Ramsey's dates as 1840-59. The initial entry was taken from Jackson's and has been extended by reference to assayed spoons I've seen with this mark with the date letters for 1840 and 1859. Family Search web site shows an Edward Ramsey born in Devonport ...