HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION - ILLUSTRATED LISTING WITH THE ADDITION OF SCOTTISH, IRISH, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND COLONIES SILVERMITHS

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	TH in script Thomas Heming, apprenticed to Edmund Boddington (1738), free 1746. Died between 1795/1801 London 1761 hallmark
	TH Thomas Hall: entered 1770- Thomas Hallows: entered 1771 Thomas Hyde: entered 1784- Thomas Hodge; entered 1787- Thomas Harper I: entered 1790- Thomas Hobbs: entered 1796- Thomas Holland II: entered 1798-, London 1799 hallmark
	T.H into an oval T Heatley, Birmingham 1911 hallmark
	T.H into an oval Thomas Heasley 138 Suffolk Street, Birmingham Birmingham 1904 hallmark
	T.H into a lozenge Theodor Hartmann St. Martin's House, 1 Gresham Street and later 14 Paternoster Row, London. Agent importer of item manufactured by the firm of K. Kurz of Kesselstadt, Germany Sheffield 1901 hallmark London 1902 hallmark
	T.H (also into a heart) Thomas Hayes, 21 Spencer Street, Birmingham Birmingham 1897 hallmark Birmingham 1903 hallmark
	T.H into a rectangle Thomas Hayes, 21 Spencer Street, Birmingham Birmingham 1897 hallmark
	TH over GH into a quatrefoil Thomas & George Hayter, entered 1816 London 1822 hallmark
	THH T.H. Hazlewood & Co Birmingham 1910 hallmark
	T.H over R.M into a quatrefoil Thomas Hannam & Richard Mills London 1764 hallmark
	TI over NC Creswick & Co -Thomas, James & Nathaniel Creswick- , Sheffield 1834 hallmark

	TJ Thomas Johnson I , London 1857 hallmark
	T.J Thomas Jenkinson , London 1812 hallmark
	TL or T.L into a rectangle Levesley Brothers -Thomas Levesley-, Central Works, Mary Street, Sheffield Sheffield 1898 hallmark Sheffield 1906 hallmark
	TM into a rectangle Thomas Merry II, entered 1831 London 1837 hallmark
	TM under an asterisk into a rectanglee Thomas Mann, entered 1736 London 1737 hallmark
	TM into a cut corners rectangle Thomas Marples , Sheffield 1868 hallmark
	T.M into a shield, two pellet over and below Thomas Mason, mark entered in 1733 London 1733 hallmark
	T.M into a cut corners rectangle Thomas Marples , Sheffield 1895 hallmark
	T.M into a sort of shield not identified, Sheffield 1861 hallmark
	TN Thomas Northcote, London 1796 hallmark Thomas Northcote was a specialist spoon and fork maker and was apprenticed to Charles Hutton between 1766 and 1771. He entered his first mark (TN) on 20th August 1776 following five years in the workshops of Thomas Chawner. For a brief period in the mid-1790's he worked in partnership with George Bourne (TN/GB), before once again working on his own account. He is particularly noted for the fine quality forks that bear his mark and was probably a specialist in this craft (forks were more difficult to make than spoons). He died in 1798 aged forty nine leaving his widow, Hannah, to continue the business.
	TO Thomas Oliphant or Ollivant, Manchester silversmith, overstrucking P & A Bateman mark London 1795 hallmark
	TP in script into an oval Thomas Parr II, Son of Thomas Parr I, free 1733, retired presumably 1773. Mark entered 1739 London 1751 hallmark
	TP into an oval Thomas Partis II, entered 1749 Newcastle 1751 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk
	TP into a chamfered rectangle Thomas Pepper II, Mark entered 1809 London 1814 hallmark
	TP into a shaped contour not identified Birmingham 2000 hallmark
	T.P into a rectangle Thomas Pepper I entered 1767 London 1796 hallmark
	T.P into an oval Thomas Pratt, London 1883 hallmark
	TP over ER into a quatrefoil Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson, London 1802 hallmark
	TP & S Thomas Prime & Son , Birmingham 1875 hallmark
	T.P.H without contour The Lancashire Watch Co Ltd -Thomas Peter Hewitt-, entered c. 1892 Prescot, Lancashire Chester 1894 hallmark
	T.P.R. & CO T.P.R. & CO Bombay (INDIA), c. 1890 hallmark
	TP & S Thomas Prime & Son , Birmingham 1875 hallmark
	TR in script into two circles Thomas Robins, London 1809 hallmark
	TR into two conjoined circles Thomas Reeves, 105 Vyse Street, Birmingham. Mark entered in 1907 Chester 1909 hallmark
	T.R into a curved outline Thomas Roberts, Mark entered 1720 London 1729 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk
	T.R Thomas Richards, London 1813 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk

	T.R&S Thomas Ross & Sons, Glasgow 1901 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk
	T over R.G over C into a quatrefoil Thomas Cooke II & Richard Gurney or Richard Gurney & Co, entered 1727 London 1752 hallmark
	TS into an oval Thomas Streetin , London 1810 hallmark
	TS Thomas Shaw , Birmingham 1836 hallmark
	TS Thomas Sansom, Sheffield 1830 hallmark
	T.S Thomas Shepherd, London 1781 hallmark
	T.S into two conjoined circles Thomas Smily , London 1866 hallmark
	TS over TM into a square Timothy Smith & Thomas Merryweather, entered 1824 London 1824 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk
	TS over WS over HH Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater -Alfred Thomas Slater, Walter Brindley Slater & Henry Arthur Holland- , London 1899 hallmark
	T.T Thomas Townsend, Dublin 1817 hallmark
	T.T over & Co into a square Thomas Turner & Co, Sheffield 1933 hallmark

	TW in script Thomas Wallis II, Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell London 1793 hallmark....MORE....
	TW Thomas Wallis I, London 1777 hallmark....MORE....
	TW Thomas Watson, Newcastle 1802 hallmark
	TW Thomas Wheatley, Newcastle 1837 hallmark
	TW in script Thomas Whipham London 1755 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk A predecessor silversmith of Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd, business still active in present days ... MORE....
	TW Thomas Whitaker -entered 1841- Thomas Wimbush -entered 1846- Thomas Wells -entered 1849- Thomas Whitehouse -entered 1850-, London 1852 hallmark
	T.W into a rectangle under a star Thomas Whipham entered 1737 London 1741 hallmark
	T.W into a rectangle Thomas Wallis I, entered 1758 London 1776 hallmark....MORE....
	T.W Thomas Whitehouse, London 1867 hallmark
	T.W T Wooley, Birmingham 1911 hallmark
	T.W over & Co over Ltd into a shield Travis, Wilson & Co Ltd , Sheffield 1946 hallmark
	T.W&S into an oblong rectangle not identified, possibly T. Willis & Son(s), 65 Northampton St, Birmingham Birmingham 1887 hallmark courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk
	T over WC over C into a quatrefoil Thomas & William Chawner (possibly), London 1758 hallmark A predecessor silversmith of Edward Barnard & Sons Ltd, business still active in present days ... MORE....
	T.W.D. into three conjoined circles Thomas William Dee, firm established in 1827 by John William Dee & John Fargues, mark entered in 1862 London 1865 hallmark
	T.W.D into a six sides polygon Dobson & Sons -Thomas William Dobson-, mark entered in 1886 London 1888 hallmark
	TW over D over HH into a quatrefoil Dobson & Sons -Thomas William Dobson & Henry Holmes Dobson-, mark entered in 1877 London 1885 hallmark
	TW over JH Thomas Wallis and Jonathan Hayne, London 1811 hallmark....MORE....
	T.W.L into a rectangle Thomas William Lack, London 1937 hallmark

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The hallmarking of British silver 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 marks are:

Town mark, corresponding to the mark of the Assay Office that has verified the piece

Lion passant guardant or Britannia or lion's head erased, certifiying the silver quality

Maker's mark, identifying the silversmith presenting the piece to the assay office (usually the initials of Christian name and surname of the silversmith)

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

A further mark was used in the period 1784 - 1890:
Sovereign head ('duty mark'), certifying the payment of the duty