THE DIRECTORY OF AUSTRALIA SILVERSMITHS
MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF AUSTRALIAN SILVER
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SILVERSMITH'S NAME
AND MARKS
SILVERSMITH'S INFORMATION
BARCLAY David
BARCLAY David BARCLAY David BARCLAY David		 Tasmania, Hobart
active 1830s/1840s
BASSÉ Frederick
BASSÉ Frederick BASSÉ Frederick BASSÉ Frederick		 South Australia, Adelaide
active early 1880s until his death in 1913. His firm continued under his widow, trading as F. Bassé & Co until around 1923.



BENNETT Charles
BENNETT Charles		 Victoria, Melbourne
active 1840s/1850s
BENNETT William
 Victoria, Melbourne
active 1840s/1930s
BRADSHAW
BRADSHAW BRADSHAW		 Victoria,
active 1900s/1920s
BRENTANI Charles
BRENTANI Charles		 Victoria, Melbourne
active 1840s/1850s
BROAD Robert
BROAD Robert		 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1830s/1840s
BRUGGEMANN HW
HW Bruggemann - Broken Hill		 Broken Hill, New South Wales
watchmaker and jeweller active in early 20th century. Used the trade mark BARRIER SILVER
BRUNKHORST August L.
BRUNKHORST August L. BRUNKHORST August L. BRUNKHORST August L. BRUNKHORST August L.		 South Australia, Adelaide
active 1880s/1910s. Augustus Ludwig Brunkhorst (Germany/Australia, 1846-1919) arrived in Australia from Germany in 1875. He worked with the great Henry Steiner as a silversmith before Steiner went back home to Germany. Later, he joined Kindermann & Co. in 1877 and the firm that then became known as Kindermann & Brunkhorst.
BRUSH & MACDONNELL
BRUSH & MACDONNELL		 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1850s/1860s




HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER - MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION
BRITISH TOWN MARKS AND DATE LETTERS
AUSTRALIA AND ITS SILVER
A BRIEF HISTORY
1841 map of Australia Colony
Australia in the 19th century was made up of six separate colonies, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia, South Australia (including, at this time, also the Northern Territories).
In term of working silversmiths only three colonies supported any number of craftsmen, namely South Wales capital, Sydney, Victoria, capital Melbourne and South Australia capital, Adelaide.
In the first half of the 19th century inhabitants of Australia were few tenths of thousands and pre 1850 Australian silver by comparison to colonial silver in general must be considered very rare.
Most working silversmiths with retail business carried imported silver or plated items as current stock and locally produced items were manufactured only to fulfill immediate orders (as presentation trophies) when the waiting time to order pieces from England was too long.
No form of official mark or date letter system was introduced into the hallmarking of Australian silver.
Early Australian silversmiths marked their objects with their full name or initials and imitations of English hallmarks as leopard's heads, lions and anchors.
In 1988 was formed the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia. A voluntary system of marking was introduced (maker's mark, standard mark, guild mark and date letter).





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