HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION

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	H&T Hilliard & Thomason Birmingham 1897 hallmark
	HM H Matthews, Birmingham 1912 hallmark
	H P & S H Pidduck & Sons Birmingham 1919 hallmark
	H.S Henry Stratford Sheffield 1886 hallmark
	HT Birmingham 1881 hallmark
	H over W&Co over Ld into a quatrefoil Horace Woodward & Co Ltd, London 1915 hallmark Birmingham 1910 hallmark
	IB John Bettridge, Birmingham 1830 hallmark
	I star D John Delmester or Dempster, London 1762 hallmark

	IET John Edward Terrey, London 1825 hallmark
	IL John Lambe, London 1781 hallmark
	I.L under a circle John Langlands I, Newcastle 1757 hallmark
	IL over HL over CL John & Henry & Charles Lias, London 1828 hallmark
	IS Birmingham 1936 hallmark
	IS over G Israel Sigmond Greenberg, Birmingham 1902 hallmark
	I.T Joseph Taylor Birmingham 1803 hallmark

	IW John Walton, Newcastle 1813 hallmark
	J.AC into an oval James Adam Chalk London 1866 hallmark
	JA over IA Joseph & John Angell, London 1832 hallmark
	J over ASH over E into a pointed cross Joseph, Albert, Horace & Ethelbert Savory, London 1879 hallmark
	JA over TS into a quatrefoil John Aldwinckle & Thomas Slater, London 1890 hallmark
	JBC into a quatrefoil Carrington & Co -John Bodman Carrington-, London 1893 hallmark
	JBC over &S over Ld into a shield JB Chatterley & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1930 hallmark
	JC John Crouch, London 1812 hallmark
	JC&S J. Cook & Sons Birmingham 1914 hallmark
	J.C Ltd Birmingham 1918 hallmark
	J.C.V John Collard Vickery London 1924 hallmark
	J.D & S James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1920 hallmark
	JD over WD James Deakin & sons, Sheffield 1921 hallmark
	JE John Emes London 1807 hallmark

	J.G Ltd into three circles J Gloster Ltd Birmingham 1963 hallmark
	J.G &S John Grinsell & Sons Birmingham 1918 hallmark London 1897 hallmark
	JH Joseph Hicks Exeter 1824 hallmark
	JH in script Jonathan Hayne London 1834 hallmark
	J.H.P. J H Potter Sheffield 1890 hallmark
	JL John Linnit London 1818 hallmark
	JP Sheffield 1891 hallmark

BRITISH TOWN MARKS AND DATE LETTERS

London	Birmingham	Dublin	Edimburgh	Sheffield	Chester

The British and English silver hallmarking system is based on a combination of marks that makes possible the identification of the origin and the age of each silver piece manufactured or traded in the UK.
The silver assay marks are:

Town mark, corresponding to the mark of the assay office that has verified the piece

Lion's passant guardant or Britannia or lion's head erased certifying the silver's quality
Maker's mark, identifying the silversmith presenting the piece to the Assay Office

Date letter, in cycles of twenty letters of the alphabet of different shape identifyings the year in which the piece was verified by the Assay Office

A further mark was introduced in the period 1784 - 1890 in British and English silver hallmarking system:
Sovereign head ('duty mark'), certifying the payment of duty

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