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The G.B. may be George Butler and the knife blade is still in production to-day, different companys have different names for the same blade, when I produced these carver knives at George Butlers they were called a Coronation Carver, it was also called a Double Hump Sword BUT it was just an ordinary ...

I do have my Grandfathers Indenture (copy that is) I did have the indenture of George Butler from the 1600s but I gave that to Sheffield Archive.

I wonder if anyone could furnish me any information, photos, trade flyers and such on an Irish Silversmith company called JOHN SMYTH & SONS OF WICKLOW ST DUBLIN my Grandfather started his apprenticeship there in 1889, he eventually moved to Birmingham round about the turn of the Century then on ...

This mark is reminisent of Pawnbrokers marks, I have a Silver Pocket watch and the amount of minute entries in it are not repairs its from when the watch was taken to "Uncle" for a few bob, by the way I worked at Cooper Brothers in the seventies.