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As ever, my question to you all is of the sponsor; as while WH occurs several times, I do not find one in the right date range.
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I am assuming that this is actually a snuff box, but the serrated side (below the hinge) is a very ...

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Dear All, I offer for comment this plain, quite conventional snuff box. The worn marks seem to read:- Duty mark: Sponsor T.W: London date letter of 1816 and the passant below these.
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From image 8728a, the readable marks (as you may well have found by now) are Birmingham, before May 1st 1890. The sponsor mark looks something like Minshull & Latimer. The other marks are a total mystery.

Much appreciated Trev. - Thanks

Google having served me poorly, please can anyone steer me to any studies/websites/books that particularly focus on the kind of engine-turned decoration much used on Birmingham smallwares. Technical info. is welcome, but wider design issues is my main interest. Thanks.

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This is what I assume to be a pill box, marked for 1910, diameter 44mm. Believing that I've checked all of the sources, please may I ask if anybody has established whose sponsor mark this is? It is listed on Silver Makers Marks but without a name. As always, thank ...

Dear All,
I understand that Chester Assay lost a certain portion of its archives and wonder if this maker may have been amongst them. I have looked on every website I know and rechecked the Chester 'bible' but have drawn a complete blank. Can anyone please point me?
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Obliged to you Mike. That was a name that occured to me, but I knew I was out of my depth. Graham
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Help please from an owner of London references for this bookmatch case. The images do not do it justice, the outside is engine-turned and the inside (as some will deduce) is flashed with gold in a frosted form. There is also engraved a poigniantly restrained "From Shirley", a story ...

Hello All,

Please may I have some help with the maker of this watch fob? I had thought that the standard reference book for Chester would supply every answer I needed. I may of course have slipped and overlooked it.

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Mike and Miles, I'm obliged to you. The focus of my interest has been Birmingham, but clearly there was overlap with Chester. May I have details of this Ridgeway & Priestly reference - assuming it is available.
Sincerely. graham
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This is a real challenge and I must fess up that I have already sent the item to Birmingham Assay and they wouldn't pass an opinion, but I still want to know - sorry folks.
graham

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This came up last in August '07 (Tongtwister replied), but is it now known if Smith & Bartlam had two marks? The standard I knew was a central circle with a fusil either side - this as you see is three fusils. Can it possibly be anyone else?

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Hello Simon,

In case you haven't had an answer yet. I had my example checked with Birmingham and it is Swan(n) & Adams.

Cheers

Graham

I have a number of examples like this, the JG conforms with the font of John Gilbert, but it is J G not J.G Am I not observing correctly/Did the mark change at some date/Is it somebody else? Thank you

Thank you both for this. Perhaps it won't take so long for me to get my eye in and become a net contributor

First posting on this site, so please forgive gaffes. I would like help please identifying this sponsor mark (C&C). The nearest I have found to it is that of Albert Cohen & Charles Solomon - but that is a Sheffield mark.

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