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Royes was in fact apprenticed to Solomon Hougham before achieving his freedom in 1797 and also probably married Hougham's daughter (viewtopic.php?f=74&t=40550).

I agree with your dating but, if you want accuracy, the assay date is between 29th May 1811 and 28th May 1812 as that is when the 1811 assay year ran.

I don't think your maker could be Solomon Royes as he did not enter his first mark alone until 1820, with his first appearance in a partnership mark ...

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Sampson Mordan used both Chester and Birmingham assay offices (and also London and Sheffield). What seems to have happened here is that part of the sovereign case was assayed at Chester and the other part was assayed at Birmingham. The separate parts were returned by the assay offices to Sampson ...

An example of Josephs' mark with an 1885 Chester hallmark which also includes their wheatsheaf trade mark.

Great spot, Fishless! Yes, it is a Birmingham 1898 "y". Probably not an outsourcing - just a bit of random picking off the shelf?

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That is correct and is also true for Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Dublin. Since 1975 the 4 remaining British assay offices, Birmingham, London, Sheffield and Edinburgh, have changed the date letter on 1st January each year.

That is correct - although the other assay offices all had their own (different) changeover dates.

You will have seen that the mark was registered in February 1899 (actually 18th February). In general British assay offices did not change the date letters at the beginning of the year, which is why you will sometimes see hallmark dates expressed as, say 1898/99. I have tried on my site to spell out ...

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That date letter B is the assay year 1927/28 (from 1889 the Chester date letter changed on the 1st July every year). The maker's (or sponsor's) mark is H&W for Hector & Watson, registered as gem ring manufacturers of Waterloo Street, Glasgow and Great King Street, Birmingham. The mark was registered ...

Yes, that's definitely a 1925 "k". Maybe this is a replacement for a lost original.

Date is quite definitely 1817 and the makers are James Kirkby & Joseph Waterhouse trading as James Kirkby, Waterhouse & Co. This form of the hallmark with crown and date letter combined was used by Sheffield on smaller items from 1780 to 1853 with varying styles of crown and position.

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However there is just enough there to confirm that the hallmark is Birmingham, sterling silver, and 1928. The maker's/sponsor's mark, C&SLtd, is that of ...