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1926 (B) and 1927 (C).

Phil

The date letter is the "q" for 1911. I think that your dish may well have had a glass insert. Unfortunately glass does not bounce like silver does - another good reason for collecting silver!

Phil

Your medal was awarded for an athletics event. 440 yards is ¼ mile and was a standard athletics distance in pre-metric days - the equivalent of today's 400 metres. We didn't start playing with the metric system until much later and have still not come to terms with it except in science and engineer...

I'm pretty sure it's James Dixon & Sons of Sheffield. The mark is ID&S - your image is upside down.

Phil

Sorry, I looked at the maker's mark too quickly - it's not SB over IB, but SR over IED for Solomon Royce and John East Dix, who were also London silversmiths.

Phil

This is a London mark with the assay date 1818. We can be sure it's London because the makers, Sarah & John Blake (a mother and son partnership) were London silversmiths. It was entirely normal for the assay office mark to be omitted, especially on smaller items, around this period (from c1790 t...

This is a trade mark of the Hartford Sterling Co of Philadelphia (see here and here).

Phil

Yes the year is 1892. This WC is William Comyns & Sons, mark registered 1890.

Phil

I agree with Oel. "Sn" & "95%" indicates a 95% tin content.

Phil

1914 in my opinion. The 1939 P has more of a straight edge on the bottom of the loop. Your letter is more rounded so I think it's a p. These are, I think correct:

1914:


1939:



Phil

Thomas Prime & Son of Birmingham. See here.

It's 1896. The date letter is a lower vase "v", but it is frequently confused with the 1876 "b". So no duty mark is required and the date is fine for Hayes Brothers whose marks I have previously seen with dates of 1889 to 1898.

Phil

The images are fine for me provided the link is cut and pasted into the url bar. In this case the crown is misleading and is not the Sheffield Assay Office mark. Your scissors are plated; I'm sure the mark has cropped up in one of these forums but I can't find it quickly. Maybe somebody else remembe...

Roberts & Dore Ltd, a London company.

Phil

This has been identified on another site as an electroplate mark of William Parkin of Sheffield.

Phil

This might be what you were thinking of.

Phil

It's definitely London, but 1809. The Eley-Fearn-Chawner partnership only existed from 1808 until 1814; because of the partnership's registration dates and the assay year dates we only expect to see this mark with date letters M (1807/08) - S (1813/14). In 1809 it was normal that the city mark (crow...

Yes, that is a Chester import mark but the script D is the Chester date letter for 1904. Landeck's mark was registered at Chester in 1902 and he died in 1907. As Oel mentions he also registered a London mark in 1879. He is described on his Chester registration as an "importer of foreign silver ...

The scales mark is not purely English, or even British. It is the mark of the Hallmarking Convention, an international organisation comprising mainly European states. Further information, including details of the members, can be found here.

JMCo is the Jewellery & Metal Manufacturing Co and the "X" is the date letter for 1965. I hope our Irish visitors will not be too offended by your use of the word "Britannia" to describe the seated lady. She is, of course, Hibernia.

Phil