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- Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: Other Jewelry
- Topic: Canadian silversmith - Reeves?
- Replies: 4
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Re: Canadian silversmith - Reeves?
"Work Conquers All"...found on everything from WWI German war medals to military corps (the "C"?), unions, brotherhoods, day schools, European clock towers, and so on. Carpenters and Joiners....Maybe B-IDC might be an Industrial Design College. Thank you, Traintime! You’ve given...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: Other Jewelry
- Topic: Canadian silversmith - Reeves?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3188
Canadian silversmith - Reeves?
I have a simple little ring that's driving me nuts, because I can't identify the silversmith who made it or the organization that it's for. As you'll see in the attached photo, it looks to be a school ring, with a shield bearing the letters BDIC (or BIDC?) over the motto "Labor Omnia Vincit&quo...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:08 pm
- Forum: Silver Jewelry - Single Image
- Topic: Does anyone recognize this maker’s mark?
- Replies: 0
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Does anyone recognize this maker’s mark?
I’m trying to identify the maker of a silver gilt Air Observer’s badge, from the First or Second World War. Does anyone recognize this maker’s mark?
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 1:44 pm
- Forum: Silver Jewelry - Single Image
- Topic: William James Holmes brooch?
- Replies: 2
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Re: William James Holmes brooch?
Wonderful - thank you, Phil!
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 7:25 pm
- Forum: Silver Jewelry - Single Image
- Topic: William James Holmes brooch?
- Replies: 2
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William James Holmes brooch?
This silver brooch appears to be marked for maker William James Holmes, assayed in Birmingham in 1893. Yet, according to the research I’ve done, this silversmith didn’t register his seriphed WJH mark until 1897, four years later. Can anyone help me out?
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 10:13 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Silver snuff box?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Silver snuff box?
Thank you, Phil! As the box has (unless I’m mistaken) a date letter for 1814, William Edwards makes perfect sense.
- Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Silver snuff box?
- Replies: 2
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Silver snuff box?
Does anyone recognize the maker’s mark on this (I believe!) snuff box? As you’ll see, it is incompletely stamped, but looks to me like WE of VE, assuming there are only two letters in the mark. https://i.imgur.com/whmHvw0.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u1bKTkE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TjdUyij.jpg https://i....
- Tue May 21, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Marks on silver spectacles frames
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11380
Re: Marks on silver spectacles frames
Nice find, I love the old spectacles, especially folding arms, like you have. Thanks! They’re marked “Pebbles” on the right arm which, I believe, refers to their being magnifying reading glasses. Amazingly, they just happen to be the same strength as the modern reading glasses I wear so, sometimes,...
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:22 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Marks on silver spectacles frames
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11380
Re: Marks on silver spectacles frames
Thank you, Phil and Trev. Mystery solved!
- Sun May 19, 2019 7:29 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Marks on silver spectacles frames
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11380
Marks on silver spectacles frames
Hi everyone, This is my first posting on this forum, so please be gentle with me! I have a pair of antique eyeglasses with confusing marks. The front part that holds the lenses is marked with the date letter "o" on one side of the nose piece, and a duty mark - King George III? - on the oth...