THE DIRECTORY OF AUSTRALIA SILVERSMITHS
MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF AUSTRALIAN SILVER
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SILVERSMITH'S NAME
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SILVERSMITH'S INFORMATION
W. MACDONNELL & CO
W. MACDONNELL & CO		 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1860s/1890s
MACDONNELL & RODICK
 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1890s
MATHER Margaret
Margaret Mather - Hobart		 Tasmania, Hobart
(c.1919-2002). Active 1947-1994. Working for Sargison operated also on her own workshop in Hobart
James McBEAN & Son
James McBEAN & Son		 Victoria, Melbourne
active 1850s/1890s at 112 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
McDONALD & Co
McDonald & Co: Windsor plate trademark McDonald & Co: Windsor plate trademark McDonald & Co: Paramount Plate trademark		 South Australia, Adelaide
They used trademarks WINDSOR PLATE and PARAMOUNT PLATE

McLEAN John
McLEAN John McLEAN John McLEAN John		 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1860s/1870s/font>



J.McLEAN & Son
 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1870s/1890s
J.McLEAN & Sons
 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1870s
METCALF James Irvin (Jim)
MOLE Frederick James		 Newnham College Launceston Tasmania (1970s-2015) and Cairns North Queensland Australia
MEYER Johannes (Hannes)
MEYER Johannes (Hannes) MEYER Johannes (Hannes): 1945-1955 MEYER Johannes (Hannes): 1966-1979		 Western Australia, Perth
Hannes (born Johannes) Meyer was born into a family of court jewellers in The Netherlands where he trained. He arrived in Perth in 1954 where he is known to have worked as a silversmith 1966 - 1979 before moving to Queensland. He used numerous marks; 1) JM in a bottle shaped cartouche. 2)HM in a rectangle with chamfered corners. 3)Several versions of an incuse star. Ref. Marks on Australian Silver 1950 - 2005 by Christine Erratt
MOLE Frederick James
MOLE Frederick James MOLE Frederick James (courtesy Bruce Woolford) MOLE Frederick James		 Queensland, Brisbane
active 1913-1957. Thereafter the business was styled F.J. Mole & Co and now as Silversmiths & Platers
MOSELY MOSS COHEN & CO
 New South Wales, Sydney
active 1830s/1840s
NEWMAN HENRY
Newman Henryk		 Victoria, Melbourne
active c. 1890




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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