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Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:34 am
by 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
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:03 am
by Malaya77
HI,
to give a clearer picture.
thanks
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:27 am
by 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
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:57 am
by 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
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:26 am
by 2209patrick
Hello.
I'm guessing Frederick Narborough.
Pat.
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:25 pm
by Malaya77
2209patrick wrote:
I'm guessing Frederick Narborough.
Thank you Sir.
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:29 am
by 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
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:14 am
by 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).
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:59 am
by 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
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:14 pm
by Malaya77
Hi Mike
Could it be the 'u' denotes 1919?
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:02 am
by MCB
Hello again
The letter style looks to me like the one in use in 1894-5.
Mike
Re: Hallmark on a walking stick
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:22 pm
by Malaya77
Thank you so much for all the help.
Much appreciated.