Help me please to define the master of plated items

[Elena Russ]

Hello!

I have the knife and folk for the fish. I exactly know that item are from England and made from not silver. But these articles bear the following marks: The eagle, water lily, the letters A, D in separate cartouche and the stamp, which I unfortunately cannot read.
Help me please to define the master these plated items.
Thank you.

[MCB]

Hello Elena,

A look at almost all of the Forum's British Hallmarks date letter charts will show sequences of letters in the same style as on the item here. You will see that the second letter is T and the mark reads A T & Co.

You say you know the item is English and because of this it has saved time to concentrate on that country of origin. The only reference to an English silverware manufacturer using the initials A T & Co I could find were marks registered in the 1890's at the Birmingham and Sheffield offices by Ainsworth Taylor &Co but these marks are very different to the one you show here. Perhaps another Forum member will know of another.

Mike

[user701]

You are correct Mike according to an online reference, it is AINSWORTH, TAYLOR & CO Birmingham c1895