Makers mark ID please on knife blades

[user701]

I have searched the web and my silver plate books, but cannot find this makers mark anywhere on a set of six cutlery knives, it has me stumped, any help in the ID would be appreciated.

B over W&CO over Ld
Then there is a person holding something above their head.

EP for electroplate and A1 (quality mark)



Thank you in advance.

[dognose]

Hi User,

I don't recall seeing that mark before, but my money would be on that the topmost letter is an 'h', and the maker, Horace Woodward & Co. Ltd.

As for what the man is holding of his head, Woodward's factory located at Paradise Street, Birmingham was called 'The Atlas Works'.

Trev.

[user701]

Thank you Trev for the information. Horace Woodward did use a mark in a similar manner, but not with a Gothic style of writing.
But as you say, it probably is, as the man / figure is probably holding the "world" is a play on The Atlas Works.

Thank you again.

[Essexboy Fisher]

Hello, I came across a spoon with manufacturer's marks in gothic lettering and I concluded were marks of the Horace Woodward concern. They are part of the composite image below.



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