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BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 7:07 am
by mk209
Is this BLJ mark still unknown? I came across 2 teaspoons dated 1828 Exeter.
Matt.
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:45 am
by Granmaa
Hi Matt,
I'm still none the wiser about BLJ.
Miles
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:44 am
by mk209
I’ve spent hours going through court/bankrupt files and business registers but nothing too. Is the mark on many spoons or has it just been found on a few teaspoons? Maybe I’ll start searching further afield in Bristol or other areas, hopefully one day we will know.
Thanks, Matt
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:02 am
by mk209
Ok.....we have 2 candidates for this mark:
Benjamin Jonas watchmaker of Teignmouth (later registered in Exeter as a silversmith 1848) - Nephew of Benjamin Jonas plymouth silversmith of Plymouth
B.L. Joseph formally of Liverpool who married into the Jacobs family, he married Betsy, Miriam Jacobs’s daughter. Miriam was a silversmith in Bedford Street, Plymouth in 1841.
Two possibles......
Matt.
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:17 am
by mk209
Actually there is a third:
Betsy Jacobs - did she try her hand at silversmithing too like her mother?
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:43 am
by mk209
The father Benjamin Jonas 1767-1846 the Plymouth silversmith is a prime candidate but we don’t know his middle name?
Re: BLJ - still unknown?
Posted: Thu May 09, 2019 7:51 am
by mk209
This is my attribution of this mark:
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=53495
Barnet Lyon Joseph 1801-1880