In the Silver Spoon Club journal, 19/02, December 2008, in the auction section a photograph of an identical pair of tongs with your marks plus a makers mark PN is attributed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada circa 1855.
Further to the above information on the Birmingham anchor being stamped sideways, on another website the statement is made that the anchor was stamped sideways in the date cycle 1875 to 1899. I have 3 small items in this date cycle and all have a sideways anchor, can anybody confirm or deny that thi...
Hi I am not an expert but on this site under Birmingham makers you will see C.C is Colen Cheshire registered in 1865. http://www.925-1000.com/dlBirmingham2.html#M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; he is recorded as a card case maker. I read the date as Birmingham 1893/4 though some book...
http://g.imagehost.org/t/0949/IMG_0074.jpg http://i.imagehost.org/t/0018/IMG_0077_3.jpg http://i.imagehost.org/t/0232/IMG_0104.jpg A cream jug marked as London 1900 imported (F) by Isaac Manheim. Can anybody identify/confirm Hanau marks on base. Regards Paul
This sugar sifter which may have been later altered from a toddy ladle was purchased in the Highlands and has only the makers mark PR which was attributed to Peter Ross of Aberdeen. Elvens Heraldry shows similar towers with foliage but nothing identical. Your thoughts please on any of the above thre...
Gents Postnikov states eleswhere that the makers mark is always upside down to the assay mark. When looking at it in this way, I (I should say my wife who understands cyrillic and thinks it is I JA) find the mark almost identical to Ivan Yashin, Moscow 1884-1897, who has been recently added to the R...
http://i.imagehost.org/t/0683/002.jpg http://i.imagehost.org/t/0930/IMG_0011.jpg I want to re-open this enquiry as I have just acquired a teaspoon by TT with the Edinburgh date mark for 1806/7. (Photo above) The spoon that started this posting is Edinburgh 1808/9 and at http://www.silvermakersmarks...
Thank you for this information, my wife who speaks Polish will read the websites and try to investigate further. Her hobby is genealogy and she has experience of researching pre-war Polish family trees.
I aquired a Hanovarian double drop teaspoon yesterday with identical makers mark which I have attributed to Thomas Dene as result photo on http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Do you agree with this attribution? Your date mark is possibly a squashed 'O' ...