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by Dick Gilbert
Fri May 05, 2006 6:58 pm
Forum: London Hallmarks
Topic: Maker's mark C.D on a hat brush
Replies: 1
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Maker's mark C.D on a hat brush

Possibly Cuthbert Dinsdale? He is listed in Wyler as working in London in 1865-6 but no other info.
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by Dick Gilbert
Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:04 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: 19th C pocket watch marks
Replies: 2
Views: 3068

Hi, I've got a couple of these myself. I think, and I stand to be corrected, that the 'hallmarks' are pretty much fake. I suspect these cases were locally made to take imported movements. Usually, they don't quite come up to the quality of British or Swiss cases. As you are perhaps aware, this is an...
by Dick Gilbert
Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:27 pm
Forum: European Jewelry
Topic: WW1 Nurses watch case.
Replies: 3
Views: 3724

'GS' is the importers mark for George Stockwell. He is listed in Priestly's 'Watch Case Makers of England' as a 'Foreign Agent' working between 1907 - 1918 from his premises at 16/18 Finsbury St., London, EC. Stockwell's mark is particularly common on silver 'Trench' watch cases of the period. It lo...

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