Postby dognose » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:56 pm
Hi , The Mcferlan mark is I feel too small, he did enter a larger mark as a plateworker but this was not until 1786.
Originally the registers at Goldshiths Hall only seperated large and smallworkers, after 1773 this distinction was ended and new categories i.e. plateworkers, smallworkers, spoonmakers, goldworkers, watchcasemakers, bucklemakers and spectaclemakers were formed, for what reason I have no idea, but it may have been simply to make it easier to look up someone's mark. We know that workshops like Paul Storr's for example, made everything from centrepieces to spoons, so I think it is safe to assume that someone like John Muns would have made anything that his skills permitted.
Trev.
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