Postby buckler » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:00 pm
Margaret Gill in "...Newcastle Goldsmiths" gives John Walton as retired around 1867, but gives no other IW likely.
As the leopards head is uncrowned on these marks ( it was only uncrowned in Newcastle in the period 1846 to 1851) I suspect that the maker is John Walton, but the dateletter is a capital ("i" ), I and thus the date is actually 1847/48.
Accepting your presumed L as an I , then the date, maker, and Leopards head match nicely .
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