Hallmark on a walking stick

[Malaya77]

HI all,

I have this walking stick, with silver banding that have the hall marks below. Can any experts here shed a light?
Thanks

[Malaya77]

HI,
to give a clearer picture.



thanks

[oel]

Hi Malaya77,

Welcome to the forum

Birmingham date letter U for the year 1894-95
The maker’s mark F.N, could it be an early mark for; F Narborough ?
Let us wait for the others to react.

Regards,

Oel

[Malaya77]

Hi Eol.

Thanks, i cant figure out the F.N, looks like EN to me from the beginning.
I got this piece from Malaysia, which i am currently am. Thanks so much for the help.

Cheers

[2209patrick]

Hello.

I'm guessing Frederick Narborough.

Pat.

[Malaya77]

I'm guessing Frederick Narborough.

Thank you Sir.

[MCB]

Hello

Page 151 of The Compendium of Chester Gold & Silver marks 1570-1962 by Ridgway & Priestley shows Narborough was a whip mount maker; presumably his activities also included silver mounts for walking sticks.
The Birmingham mark of 1898 reproduced in the Forum British Hallmarks section is a worn example and indicates that the pellet (dot) between the two initials could appear to be the bottom right serif of a letter E instead of a letter F as Oel and Pat suggest but not knowing whether Narborough registered a similar Birmingham mark before 1898 must leave the attribution open to conjecture.
On the image of the mark pictured here there seems to be the ghost of something in front of the letter E or F. Is this just a trick of the light or can any more be made of it?

Mike

[Malaya77]

Hi Mike,

This is the best i can do with my current camera. Any bigger it will get blurer.



Here is the full pic of the item. (sorry just notice this rule while i was browsing around).

[MCB]

Hello again

The image does appear to have something in front of what is now more clearly a letter F but perhaps not another letter which originally formed part of the maker's mark. A trawl through all maker's marks in my lists looking for a three letter mark with FN as the second two has produced no result and on balance I would provisionally attribute the stick mount to F Narborough hoping for future confirmation that by 1894-5 he had registered a Birmingham mark like this.

Mike

[Malaya77]

Hi Mike

Could it be the 'u' denotes 1919?

[MCB]

Hello again

The letter style looks to me like the one in use in 1894-5.

Mike

[Malaya77]

Thank you so much for all the help.
Much appreciated.