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- Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:12 pm
- Forum: Contributors' Notes
- Topic: British Additional Marks
- Replies: 89
- Views: 63630
Re: British Additional Marks
J.Birdsall Skipton (Part 2). I recently came across a hallmarked silver spoon with an interesting marking relating to a likely retailer. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg The set of hallmarks indicate this spoon was made in Sheffield by “John Round & S...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: European Jewelry
- Topic: J Birdsall, Skipton. Part one?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6908
Re: J Birdsall, Skipton. Part one?
Follow on. Hello again, I had to join the Library to glean some of the information I believe I was missing. I found on the 1891 census that Samuel Birdsall was married with a 7 year old son “James Ernest Birdsall”. In 1901 James was still at the same home address as his father and although difficult...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 7:51 pm
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: “M” in Australia Sterling silver mark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6054
“M” in Australia Sterling silver mark
I was just lucky enough to buy a decorative possibly “Arts & Crafts” teaspoon.The spoons finial has a small piece of “opal” in the representation of a flowering plant. I am not a botanist but I am guessing it could be a “bottlebrush” plant. I was encouraged to buy the spoon because I was intrigu...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 4:22 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Copper Spoon hallmark help
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4518
Re: Copper Spoon hallmark help
Hello, I have thoughts I would like to add to what Impulse and AG2012 have said. Although Impulse’s pictures have gone now, my thinking about the “crab” mark on Impulse’s and other similarly marked spoons, is that a “crab shape” was the obvious shape to mimic the “lion passant“ mark that is on Engli...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:07 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Tongs - B&A mark
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1898
Re: Tongs - B&A mark
Hello, "Broadhead and Atkin" have been known to use a "B&A" mark but most illustrated marks are associated with "S" pressumably for Sheffield where their "Works" was. They made plenty of holloware and the full name of the company was regularly present. For...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 1:11 pm
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: Can anybody identify these hallmarks?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9233
Re: Can anybody identify these hallmarks?
Hello, I managed to "blow" the marks the marks up a little bit and interesting they look. But obviously not hallmarks as there is no silver guarantee mark. I think we are looking for a "JS" plate manufactuter. There is a "Cog/Star" mark, possibly a elongated "crown...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:59 am
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: Spoons
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20612
Re: Spoons
2 – 0 to me so far. And both of you are mind readers. Well Traintime, thought transfer across the Atlantic. Is there money in it? I too had thought that the “slimmed” trademark might have been part of the “careless talk costs lives” program. However that only came to me as I walked to get my newspap...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:47 pm
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: Spoons
- Replies: 13
- Views: 20612
Re: Spoons
Hello, I came across this old post when doing some research into companies who make War Department cutlery. The presence of a “broad arrow” mark identifies this cutlery just as same mark identifies most other British Army equipment. The cutlery also almost always carries the year of manufacture/requ...
- Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: English Tea Set Hallmark
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9641
Re: English Tea Set Hallmark
Hello I think I have some images (and an idea) to go with this post. First we have some other examples of the cannon associated with the electroplating company of Abram Brooksbank & Co. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg The label is on the box that con...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: P R Horsehead 90...Is it German or Dutch?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6662
Re: P R Horsehead 90...Is it German or Dutch?
Hello, Jennifer_sita, I hope you are still looking to see if you have been replied to. This is an occasion when I do not need to answer my own post about a Dutch silverplate mark with the “horse’s head” image. It was in 2013 and 2014 that I posted similar images to jennifer_sita’s without response. ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:24 pm
- Forum: European Jewelry
- Topic: J Birdsall, Skipton. Part one?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6908
J Birdsall, Skipton. Part one?
Hello, this post is a bit like an auction mixed lot and I was not sure about where to post it. Sorry you got the short straw. It was to be a post concerning a jeweller based in the North of England with the name “J.Birdsall”. His jeweller’s shop was in the market town of Skipton in North West Yorksh...
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:52 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Early 19th Century spoon with “balloon” mark
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2354
Re: Early 19th Century spoon with “balloon” mark
Thank you Theoderich for your quick up date on the maker of my spoon. I had a quick look on the internet with the name. I found nothing different on line to give a more precise date for my spoon. It is obvious that "G.A.Scheel" was working at some period while “Georg Friedrich Persch” was ...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 6:42 am
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: I think this is German - Marked 12
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2458
Re: I think this is German - Marked 12
Hello, I see that Theoderich has not made any suggestions as to the maker of this spoon. Do we assume that the second mark is not a maker's mark? My first careful look at the second mark was that it looked like a Roman numeral "XII", and could be just number 12 again. Sorry to ask but I ha...
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:48 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Early 19th Century spoon with “balloon” mark
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2354
Early 19th Century spoon with “balloon” mark
Hello I just bought the serving spoon shown in the picture below as it had crisp marks and I did not recognise them. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg If I have posted it in the correct section on the forum I have obviously learnt a little about the spoon ...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: W.P. Mark? William Page of Birmingham Electroplate?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7997
W.P. Mark? William Page of Birmingham Electroplate?
The William Page Company trademark consisting of the “WP” inside a crown or inside a diamond, inside the crown, was about the first 19th century electroplate mark that I immediately recognised. Accompanying symbols were often in the style of “pseudo hallmarks” and although a letter “A” or an odd ”C”...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:00 am
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: Does anybody recognize this spoon mark?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6523
Re: Does anybody recognize this spoon mark?
Hello, just came upon this post. Can not tell exactly where this mark is on the bowl, but wondered if it was a pre manufactured fancy "blank field" for a local jeweller to inscribe a buyer's monogram. Surely that would give the opportunity of easy personalisation of a "stock" ite...
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:44 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Spoon German Ship Line
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3091
Re: Spoon German Ship Line
Hello, I could have a fork from the same NDL shipping line as “Traintime”. Sadly the original images in the post have gone so no comparisons by eye are possible. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg I believe though mine may be a bit older than “Traintime’s” ...
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: England R&B mark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3233
Re: England R&B mark
Thank you Mhmorningstar to show this both interesting looking knife and annoying set of gothic style maker’s marks. Is this a butter knife? Do the serrations go all the way along the edge of the blade and was this type of knife typical of any particular time period? Trev suggests a “marriage” of an ...
- Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Tiny Pair of Spoons
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2595
Re: Tiny Pair of Spoons
Hello, I just got hold of an interesting fish knife and I think the image of the finial marks could be useful to go with this oldish post. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg We have A&N, CS and L the fairly standard set of Army& Navy Cooperative Sto...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:09 pm
- Forum: Silver Plate Trademarks - Single Image
- Topic: Spoon England 1954 marks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5490
Re: Spoon England 1954 marks
Hello, I can possibly give you some pointers for this spoon, but I will need to ask you a question first. Is there a "crowsfoot" or "broad arrow" mark between the "K" number and the 1954? There is not a lot of contrast with the spoon. worktop and the flash. I believe th...