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AMERICAN STERLING SILVER HALLMARKS - ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF MAKERS:
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FIGURAL / PICTORIAL MARKS
anchors, animals, arrows, bells,
birds, candelabra, crosses, crowns
fantastical entities, horses
human figures,
keys,
lions, musical instruments
plants and vegetables, stars swords, axes and blades,
tools, windmills,
wings, others |
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DEITSCH BROS - New York, NY
Active 1896-1922 as manufacturers of leather articles with sterling silver mountings |
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I.N. DEITSCH - New York, NY
Active 1904-c.1920 |
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DELAWARE SILVER CO |
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CHIP DeMATTEO - Bergenfield, NJ
Chip DeMatteo is the third generation silversmith, son of William L. DeMatteo. Works indipendently from c. 1975. Manufacturer of articles of 'Hand and Hammer' design |
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WILLIAM G. DeMATTEO - Bergenfield, NJ
William G. DeMatteo (1895-1980) was active in Bergenfield from 1921 to 1968. He used the marks deM Studio, D in a wheel and DEMATTEO. |
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WILLIAM L. DeMATTEO - Alexandria, VA
William L. DeMatteo (1923-1988: son of William G. DeMatteo) was a Master Silversmith. In partnership with Philip and Chip Thorp founded Hand & Hammer in 1979. |
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DEPASSE MFG CO - New York, NY
DEPASSE, PEARSALL SILVER CO - New York, NY
Depasse Mfg Co established in 1909. Succeeded by Depasse Pearsall Silver Co in c. 1915 as manufacturer of sterling silver deposit and gold encrusted ware. Out of business c. 1935. |
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DERBY SILVER CO - Derby (Birmingham) CT
The company was founded in 1873 by Edward N. Shelton, Watson J. Miller, and Thomas H. Newcomb. The main offices of the company were in the Birmingham section of Derby while the factory was in Shelton. The firm manufactured a line of silverplated toiletware and plated holloware under the trademarks Victor Silver Co and Victor Silver Plate Co. Showrooms were established in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. Derby Silver Co was one of the original firms forming International Silver Co in 1898 and the Shelton factory became known as "Factory B".
It was consolidated into Meriden in 1933. For a short period (1888-1895) the firm manufactured sterling silver flatware and holloware under the trade mark M&B (Watson J. Miller and Henry Berry). |
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DIAMOND SILVER CO |
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DEXTER & HASKINS - New Bedford, MA
partnership of Benjamin Dexter and Cyreneus W. Haskins (1860-1879). Benjamin Dexter was active as silversmith and watchmaker from 1839 |
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RICHARD DIMES COMPANY - South Boston, MA
Founded in 1908 or 1923. Sold to King Silver Company in 1955 and later acquired by Lunt Silversmiths. |
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TIMOTHY DIXON |
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DODGE INC. |
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WILLIAM WALDO DODGE Jr. - Asheville, NC
William Waldo Dodge (1895-1971) was an architect and silversmith. In 1924 he opened a small silversmith shop where he produced handwrought Arts & Crafts sterling flatware and holloware under the shopmark ASHEVILLE SILVERCRAFT and, from 1928, under the shopmark DODGE/BY HAND. The assistants of Dodge were Dick Shuford, Ray Yeomans and Johnny Green (a special code on the mark identrified the maker of any piece: see the table of codes). The shop was closed in 1942 due to the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent enlistment of the assistants. |
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FRED DODSON - Vermont and New Hampshire
worked in Vermont, then New Hampshire where he taught metalwork at Dartmouth College. Worked in sterling and pewter in mid-1960s; was also a painter and sculptor |
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DOMINICK & HAFF - New York
origin as William Gale & Son in 1862. Succeeded by William Gale Jr (1866), William Gale Jr & Co (1867), Dominick & Corning (1867), Gale & Corning (1869), Gale Dominick & Haff (1870), Dominick & Haff (1872). Purchased by Reed & Barton in 1928
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DOMINION JEWELRY MANUFACTURING CO - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
souvenir spoons manufacturer. Active during the 1900s (out of business in 1910) |
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LEONORE DOSKOW INC. - Montrose, NY
active from 1934 with a studio in New York City and later in Montrose founded by Leonore Doskow (1910-2008) and her husband David. Manufacturing gold and silver items of her own design she created a nationalwide business. Leonore retired from the business in 1985 |
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