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There was, and is, the British Britannia Standard, which is 8 pennyweights better than Sterling. This gives, to be exact, a silver quality of 95.83% silver. Others that come to mind are Netherlands 950 and 800 until 1814, 934 and 833 until 1953, then 925 and 835 now France had 800 standard as well. ...

Harald, Been peering at this one, still cannot clearly make out the duty mark, but it is decidedly dodgy. A point on 1797, is that the duty mark was altered for most of the year, as the duty on silver went up to 1/- per ounce. As you say, the B and the lion are OK for London 1797. The leopard's crow...

It's as unusual as the queen's head on British pieces of 1953 & 1977, in that it was a one year mark.
The maker someone on this forum should be able to tell you, is it LS1? I cannot quite make it out, so others may have a problem as well. I don't have anything on modern marks.
Richard
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The horseshoe shape around 1973 is called the Gleninsheen Collar and was a special mark to commemorate Ireland's entry into the European Economic Community.
Not sure on the maker.

Richard
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Is that the only mark? You can have old French pieces from Paris with this mark, or, more likely, there were some makers out of Hanau, Germany who specialised in repro pieces. You can find out more if you hunt through these forums on them. If it is a British hallmark, 1813 Sheffield had a crowned R ...

It's F. H. Adams Ltd of Birmingham.
They were registering marks from 1909 to 1937 in Birmingham. This was the earlier type of mark.

Richard

It is a piece of silver plate by Alexander Cameron, as Nigel correctly says. He was a very prolific maker and seller of silver, plate, watches and jewelery. The crown mark sometimes has E&Co below it, as it was actually made by Elkington & Co of Birmingham, then punched and sold on by Camero...

I would say that the dates were b 1917/18 and c 1918/9. The changeover of the letters is in May, so items arriving in for assay at the same time at the end of April, can be marked for different years, especially at this time as the war was on and there would have been a shortage of staff. The fact t...

Fiddle pattern was first made in England in 1739, but this had no shoulders at the bowl, and the end of the handle turned up not down, probably to replace one of a French set. In 1769, the Chawners produced a service for a customer with" fiddle heads" it states in Ian Pickford's Silver Fla...

Hello Miles, Sorry not to be able to say who the maker was, the best I can do you is to say that there is a piece with the same mark in Dundee Museum, and they don't know either. Also Vic at Coritani had another, with the pots reversed and there is one in William Guthrie's book. It's not an 'I' but ...

Pat,

Very many thanks, that would appear to be the one. The bottom right corner of the punch had not taken properly.

Only just found this forum, courtesy of Miles, so thought I would try to find out more.
Excellent advert for the expertise here.

Regards
Richard

I have an Art Deco style condiment spoon with a Registration mark for 27 July 1878, maker's mark is AJP in a trefoil. Can anybody identify please?
(Apologies about the lack of photos, but I am still trying to get the hang of putting one on here.)

Maker Samuel Jacob, London somewhere about 1900.
For some reason there is no date letter, he was working from 1892 - 1916, and made items like this.

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Are you sure that you have the right 'd'? Is there a queen's head duty mark? If it is an ordinary, lower case 'd', with no duty mark, it would be 1903, in which case S.M.L would be Samuel M and Charles M Levi. This is why a photo is so useful, everyone always hopes their piece is that little bit old...

often a date was put on to commemorate a wedding, christening or even birthday. Usually 2 sets of initials for a wedding.
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E&Co was Elder & Co JH & Co was James Hardy & Co of Aberdeen (selling on an Elder & Co piece, not too uncommon), if there is a full stop between the J and the H and a long punch with a little tag at each end; or James Howden & Co if no '.' and an ordinary oblong punch JMc was...

The anchor and leopard tend to suggest Birmingham, the A would be for 1950, so probably the W would be 1946 and the Y 1948.
The maker's mark of C ? G & Co, I am afraid I cannot supply, a phot really is necessary to give us a clue.

Richard

The trefoil duty mark was utilised in Edinburgh for about the first 15 years of the century, sometimes with, sometimes without a date letter, usually on provincial pieces sent in for assay, that was why no castle punch was used. There is always the possibility that a sneaky was being done and, witho...

I think it's John Whittaker of London and 1909

Richard
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This was made by John Watson of Aberdeen, he worked for the last part of the 19th Century. some of his pieces were also hallmarked with Glasgow, if he felt like being a good boy.

Richard
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