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Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:02 am
by Nata37
Hello, Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:52 am
by silvermakersmarks
This is a Birmingham hallmark for the assay year 1906/07. I am unable to identify MW as we don't have comprehensive references for Birmingham sponsors' mark. I note that it also has a Swedish hallmark for 1930.
Phil
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:07 am
by silvermakersmarks
I have just noticed that this mark seems identical to one registered at Sheffield in 1875 by Mark Willis, in use there until 1904 and succeeded in 1904 by Mark Willis & Son. The mark has the same square-shaped stop between the letters so there is a strong possibility that the maker of this bowl is Mark Willis & Son.
Phil
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:07 am
by Nata37
silvermakersmarks wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:07 am
I have just noticed that this mark seems identical to one registered at Sheffield in 1875 by Mark Willis, in use there until 1904 and succeeded in 1904 by Mark Willis & Son. The mark has the same square-shaped stop between the letters so there is a strong possibility that the maker of this bowl is Mark Willis & Son.
Phil
How then to explain the sign of Birmingham on the mark? And the lack of a Sheffield sign?
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:23 pm
by silvermakersmarks
If it is Mark Willis & Son then they must have registered their mark at Birmingham as well as Sheffield. It was a relatively common practice for marks to be registered at more than one assay office.
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:38 pm
by AG2012
JAT is for Swedish importer Johan Alfred Tancred in Malmö, registered 1926 known until 1948.
Regards
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:16 am
by Nata37
silvermakersmarks wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:23 pm
If it is Mark Willis & Son then they must have registered their mark at Birmingham as well as Sheffield. It was a relatively common practice for marks to be registered at more than one assay office.
Thank you for your help
Re: Can you please help me identify the workshop and years of work?
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:17 am
by Nata37
AG2012 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:38 pm
JAT is for Swedish importer
Johan Alfred Tancred in Malmö, registered 1926 known until 1948.
Regards
Thank you