www.925-1000.com

Hello Tony, I can't find anything to specifically relate Charles Henry to Robert Victor Dumenil. Robert's business was transferred to him on the death of Frederick Dumenil (1894) who had acquired it by transfer from Etienne Dumenil (1885). Etienne founded the business in 1874. That the business was ...

The "RD" mark is for Robert Victor Dumenil, silverworker or pipe mounter from 1894 until after 1928.

Sorry I can't help with the "L & Co" mark.

Welcome to the forum.

Sorry I can't help with "JJ" but can confirm your view of the case being assayed at Chester 1858-9.

"BK" is the maker's mark of Benjamin Kerby of London who first registered at Chester in 1842.

The item was assayed in London in 1881-2.

If, as seems likely, it is a piece of flatware, the makers were probably John Gilbert & Co Ltd of Birmingham, Edward Gilbert being their London representative.

I was reading Jackson's on Glasgow to see if there was anything to explain the gaps in the information published and find he was given access to a copper plate containing impressions of maker's marks for which the assay office had names but no record of the date the mark was registered. No surprise ...

Jackson's (2002 Edition page 576) shows a Glasgow maker's mark like the one on your tea set. The mark was first used some time prior to 1903 by Jas. Forrest but Jackson's gives no further detail.

Could he be your man?
.

Ridgway & Priestley's book on Chester makers' marks identifies one the same as this registered in 1902.

Hello Tongtwister, I don't think the mark is Joseph Hicks'; he used "JH". I can't find any others in "Jacksons'" list of registered Exeter makers who might legitimately have used "IH". That leaves you with the great unknown of course if you can satisfy yourself that the...

Hello John, George, Robert & William Sydenham traded as Sydenham Brothers from 54 New Edmund Street Birmingham from around 1875 and from Tenby Street Birmingham from around 1900. They registered a mark at Chester office in 1878 which is very similar to the one on your brooch. No evidence found t...

Hello Alain,

The assay office is Sheffield; the maker is William Yates.

Hello Celadon,

I think you'll find the year of assay was 1927/8; the town mark has a waved base wheras for 1907/8 there was a waved top.

The makers were Blackmore & Fletcher Ltd.
.

Hello Shasla, The maker's stamp on your spoons is so poorly engraved I wonder if it's not an unauthorised mark and the maker could then be any of the "TDs". Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks (2002 Edition page 228) refers to his having seen tablespoons by Thomas Doxey, assayed London 1759,...

Hello EnT,

William Aitken of Vyse Street Birmingham registered an oval mark with a central pellet at Chester in 1899.

The middle part of the mark on your item is worn and that's where the pellet would be.

You might see some remains of it if you have another look?

I too think you can be confident of the assay date being 1889-90. As "Buckler" has said there are a few Chester registered marks for HW but in my view only two fit the bill; Henry Williamson of Farringdon Road London and Henry Wood of Wood St Liverpool. Williamson is a known thimble maker. .