ELECTROPLATE SILVER AND SILVER PLATE

ALPHABETICAL GLOSSARY OF MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF SHEFFIELD MAKERS

WITH THE ADDITION OF OTHER BRITISH, SCOTTISH AND IRISH MAKERS
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BRITISH ELECTROPLATED SILVER - ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF MAKER'S MARKS: HA-HZ
Most of these electroplate and silverplate makers operated in the town of Sheffield from c. 1840 to c. 1940 (makers operating in other towns, e.g. Birmingham, are expressly indicated)
For an easier reference to the mark you are searching for, the alphabetical order relates to hallmark's letters or to 'figural' definition (NOT to firm's name)
|A|B|C|D| : the letters ABCD are inside separated square outlines
| ABCD | : the letters are inside a unique rectangular outline
(A)(B)(C)(D) : the letters are inside separate circular or oval outlines
( ABCD ) : the letters are inside an unique outline (of various shape)
[ ABCD ] : the letters are inside a shield
hand, tower, crown, etc.: describes (when possible) a symbol present on the hallmark
gothic : the letters are in gothic style
date indicates approximate period of firm's activity
BRITISH ELECTROPLATED SILVER - SILVERPLATE - SILVER PLATE
MAKER'S HISTORY
& MARK'S IMAGE		 Aa Az Ba Bd Be Bn Bo Bz Ca Cn Co Cz Da Dh Di Dz Ea Eo Ep Ez Fa Fh Fi Fz Ga Gn Go Gz Ha Hh Hi Hz Ia Jz Ka Kz La Lz
Figural trade marks Ma Maq Mar Mz Na Nz Oa Oz Pa Pg Ph Pz Qa Rz Sa Sh Si Sz Ta Uz Va Vz Wa Wh Wi Wz Ya Yz Za Zz unk. #1 unk. #2 unk. #3 unk. #4
ELKINGTON DATE LETTER
CLICK ON THE RED NAME FOR MAKER'S MARK IMAGE
|ALPHABETICAL GLOSSARY OF MARKS MAKER - PERIOD
| H || & || A | Harold & Ashwin - Birmingham - 1868
| H | & | Co | Heeley & Co - 1894 - 1904
( H & F ) inside an oval Hukin & Fenton - Birmingham - 1868
| H | & | H | Hukin & Heath - Birmingham
| H || & || H || S ||EP| Harrison Brothers & Howson (possibly) - Sheffield - c. 1940
(H)(&)(H) inside three circles Jonathan Wilson Hukin & John Thomas Heath - Birmingham - 1875
|H&I| inside a rectangle Hamilton & Inches - Edinburgh - 1895
|H&L| inside a rectangle Richard Hodd & William Linley - London - 1862-1872
H & L Harris & Land - 1863 - 1864
(H&L over G) inside a trefoil Hamilton & Laidlaw - Glasgow
|H&P| inside a rectangle Joseph Hirons & Henry Hodson Plante - Birmingham - 1860-1863
(H&S) (E)(P)(N)(S)inside ovals A inside a 'crown' William Hutton & Sons - Sheffield & London
(H&S) (E)(P)(N)(S)inside ovals B inside a 'crown' William Hutton & Sons - Sheffield & London
(H&S) (S)(EP)inside ovals William Hutton & Sons - Sheffield & London
H & S unidentified
(H)(A) Archer & Company
|HA| inside a rectangle Archer, Machin & Marsh
|H||A||symbol||S| Henry Atkin - Sheffield - Old Sheffield Plate 1823
| HA | EA | FA | Atkin Brothers - from 1853
HAMLTON LAIDLAW & CO over GLASGOW - SHEFFIELD Hamilton Laidlaw & Co - Glasgow and Sheffield
|'hand'| inside a rectangle William Dudley & Son - Sheffield 1892
HARRISON &HOWSON over ALPHA under a 'crown' Harrison - 1862-1909 - Sheffield
HARRISON & SON over THE GOLDSMITHS over D'ARLINGTON under 8 'crossed arrows' John Harrison & Sons - Dromfield (near Sheffield) - 1880 c.
|HARRISON||BROS & HOWSON| Harrison Brothes & Howson - Sheffield
HARRISON BROS over &HOWSON over SHEFFIELD over a 'crown' Harrison Brothers & Howson - Sheffield
HARRISON over NORFOLK WORKS Harrison - Sheffield 1843-1865
|HARRODS||A1| Harrods - London
HARRODS under a 'trumpet' James Dixon & Sons, Harrods - Sheffield & London - 1890 c.
HART & HUISHE Hart & Huyshe - Campden, Glos.
(2)('crown')[HAR over WOOD](Z) Henry Millington Harwood & Son - Birmingham - 1892-1894
Hayman in script PERFECTION Hayman & Company - Birmingham
(H.B) inside an a chamfered rectangle Henry Bourne - Birmingham - 1896
[H] (B)|&|(Co) Hartley, Baxter & Co - Sheffield - 1899
( H B )[&](Co)(S)(BP) unidentified
[ H B over &H ] inside a shield Harrison Brothers & Howson - 1862-1909
( H B over & over HS) inside a quatrefoil under a 'crown' Harrison Brothers & Howson
| H | B | & | H | [crown] gothic Harrison Brothers & Howson - 1862-1897
| H | B | & | H | [symbol] |A||EP| gothic Harrison Brothers & Howson - 1862-1897
| H | B | (&) | H | crown over ALPHA Harrison Brothers & Howson - 1862-1897
[ H B over & H ] inside a shield Harrison Brothers & Howson - 1862 - 1909
[H][B][&][S][EP] inside shields Henry Barnascone & Son (possibly)
H.BARNASCONE over SHEFFIELD Henry Barnascone - 1868 c. - 1883 c
|H.BROS| inside a rectangle Haseler Brothers - Birmingham - 1884-1887
| H || Bros || S | unidentified
| H | B |( cross )| S | ( crown ) gothic Harrison Brothers & Howson - Sheffield
|HC||&Co||Edinb.| gothic Hamilton, Crichton & Co, Edinburgh (possibly)
H C & Co S Hammond, Creake & Co - 1886 - 1935
|H||C||&||Co||'crown'||S| Hammond, Creake & Co - Sheffield
(H)(C)(D)inside three conjoined circles Henry Clifford Davis - Birmingham
H D MUIR & C° under a 'coat of arms' H.D. Muir & Co - London
|H.DUNSHEATH| unidentified
H E & Co Hawksworth, Eyre & Co - 20th century
[ H E & C° over Ltd ] into a shield Hawksworth, Eyre & Co - 1892 - 1894
( H.E over &C° ) inside a quatrefoil Hawksworth, Eyre & Co - 1853 - 1867
|H||E|(&)|Co| (EP) partly gothic Hawksworth, Eyre & Co - 1850 c.-1873
|HE||&||C°Ld| inside rectangle Hawksworth, Eyre & Co Ltd - 1894-1911
[HE&C° over Ld| inside a shield Hawksworth, Eyre & Co Ltd - 1874
HECWORTH unidentified
'heart and pistol' (figural) Henry Crookes - Sheffield - 1892
HELMET BRAND under a 'helmet' Henry Brooks & Co or Brooks Robinson & Co - London and Melbourne (Australia)
|HENDRO||NICKEL||SILVER| unidentified
HENRY BARNASCONE & SON over SHEFFIELD.ENGLAND Henry Barnascone & Son - 1884
HENRY over BIGGIN & Co over SHEFFIELD Henry Biggin & Co - 1880-1884
HENRY ROGERS, SON & Co over CUTLERS SHEFFIELD Henry Rogers, Son & Co - 1897
HERALD over TRUMPETER C.A.E. Speyer & Co - London
HERBERT MACLAURIN over SHEFFIELD Herbert Maclaurin - Sheffield - 1894
HESSIN. Andrew W. Charles - Birmingham - 1892
|H||F| Harrison Fisher - 1898
( H ) ( F ) ( & ) ( Co ) ( S ) Harrison Fisher - 1900 - 1925
| H | F | star | S | Harrison Fisher
| HF | S | Harrison Fisher - 1897 - 1899
|H||G||L||&||C°| H.G.Long & Co - Sheffield - 1890 c.
|H H| inside a rectangle Harrison Brothers & Howson
| H. H | Harrison Brothers - 1849 - 1861
H 'factory' H George Walker & Henry Hall - 1891 c.
H 'hand' H Henry Harrison & Co - 1873 - 1881
(H.HARROP) George Barnsley & Sons (Cornish Works) - Sheffield - 1860-1919
( HH&C°EPGS) inside a lozenge Richard Martin, Ebenezer Hall & Co - 1895
| HH& over JEB | Walker 1868 - 1916
|H||H|(&)(S) Henry Hobson & Sons - Sheffield & London - c. 1889
[HH&S] Henry Hobson & Sons - Sheffield & London - c. 1894
|H.H&S| Henry Hobson & Sons - Sheffield & London
[H.H.P over & Co under a crown] inside a shield Henry Hodson Plante & Co - Birmingham - 1882-1896
HIBERNIA over three 'clover' William Marples &Sons
HIGGINSON ROBINSON over a triangle HIR inside Higginson Robinson - Liverpool
HJ conjoined under an arrow James Howard & Sons - Sheffield
& HJ conjoined James Howard & Sons - Sheffield (possibly)
(H L)[&] |Co||S| gothic Hamilton, Laidlaw & Company - Glasgow - 1870
| H L | & | Co | Hamilton, Laidlaw & Company - Glasgow (possibly)
(H.L & Co over G) into an oval Hamilton, Laidlaw & Company - Glasgow
| H ||Ld||EP| Harrods Ltd - London
|trumpet| H ||Ld||A1| Harrods Ltd - London
HM over EPNS unidentified
[HMH over HHP] inside a shield Henry Millington Harwood & Henry Hodson Plante - Birmingham 1887-1892
HOBNOB Clifton &Co Ltd - Sheffield - 1892-1919
HOLDSWORTH over & SONS Henry Holdsworth & Sons - 1864-1900
HOLE besides a 'whale' Brooks & Cooper - Sheffield - 1892-1919
HOPE W.H. Brittain (Alma Works) - Sheffield 1892
HOWARD over SHEFFIELD Francis Howard - Sheffield - 1890 c.
(HP) inside a four lobed shape H Phillips - Aldershot, Hampshire
|H.P.&C°| inside a rectangle Hardman, Powell & Co - Birmingham 1883
|H||P||&||Co| 'gothic' H.Perry & Co - Birmingham (possibly)
[H.P over &C° under a 'crown'] inside a shield Joseph Hirons, Henry Hodson Plante & Co - Birmingham 1863-1882
[HP over &H] inside a shield Hardwood, Plante & Harrison - Birmingham 1883-1886
HP over & M inside a shield unidentified
HRS & Co Henry Rogers, Sons & Co - Sheffield 1897
H.SAMUEL under a 'knight' H.Samuel & Sons - Manchester
|H.S||S||'crown'| Henry Stratford - Sheffield - 1884-1896
( H.SAMUEL over WARRANTED over SHEFFIELD ) inside an oval Harriet Samuel
|H.S||Ld| unidentified
| H.S.W | & | C° | S | H S Wall & Co - 1927 - 1940
(H.T)(E) unidentified
HUNTER over SHEFFIELD Michael Hunter & Son - Sheffield - 1884-1887
HUSTLER Clifton &Co Ltd - Sheffield - 1892-1919
[H.V.P. over & Co] inside a shield H.V. Pithey & Co - London
HW inside a rectangle |E||P||N||S| Henry Wilkinson & Co - Sheffield
[HW] inside a shield |E||P||B||M| gothic Henry Wilkinson & Co - Sheffield
| H.W&C°| inside a rectangle Horace Woodward & Co - Birmingham - 1876-1893
[ HW over &Co ] into a shield Henry Wilkinson & Co - 1843 - 1871
| HW & Co | under a fa-kir Horace Woodward & Co - Birmingham
|H||W||&||Co| gothic ['crossed keys'] Henry Wilkinson & Co Ltd
[HW over &C° ] EPBM Henry Wilkinson & Co Ltd - 1872-1894
(HW over &Co over Ld) inside a quatrefoil Horace Woodward & Co - Birmingham - 1894
(H over W &Co over Ld) inside a quatrefoil Horace Woodward & Co - Birmingham - 1893
[HW over &C° ] [ M ] ( S ) ( EP ) [crossed keys ] Henry Wilkinson & Co - 1843 - 1871
[HW over &C° ] |Silbo| Henry Wilkinson & Co Ltd - 1872-1894
[ H. W over Ltd ] inside a shield Henry Wilkinson & Co - 1872 - 1894
(HWLd under HARD over WEAR) inside a chamfered rectangle Henry Williamson & Co Ltd - London - 1872-1892

E.P.N.S. (Electroplated Nickel Silver) and EPBM (Electroplated Britannia Metal) are the most common names attributed to silver plate items. But many other names are used for silver plate:
EPWM - Electroplate on White Metal, EPC - Electroplate on Copper, Argentium Argentine Plate, Argentum, Ascetic B. B. S. Ltd, Ashberry, Austrian Silver, Brazilian Silver D&A Trademark of Daniel and Arter, Buxbridge - Trademark name of JT&Co., Electrum, Encore TT&Co Trademark of T. Turner, Exquisite, HH&S , I.XL Geo. Wostenholm & Son, Insignia Plate, JB&S EP A1, JD&S = John Dixon & Sons, K & TL , M&W Mappin and Webb, N.S. New Silver, Nevada Silver D&A Trademark of Daniel and Arter, Norwegian Silver; Trademark of WG&S, Pelican Silver JGNS, Potosi Silver N&S WP, RN&S EP Neill, Silverite = Trademark of W P & Co , Sonora Silver = Trademark of Walker and Hall, Spur Silver = Trademark of E B & Co for Edwin Blyde & Co, Stainless N. S., Stainless Nickel, Stainless Nickel Silver, Venetian Silver - Trademark of Deykin & Sons, WF&SS EP
STERLING SILVER OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF
MAKER'S MARKS		 AA
AE		 AF
AZ		 BA
BZ		 CA
CH		 CK
CZ		 DA
DZ		 EA
EZ		 FA
FZ		 GA
GZ		 HA
HG		 HH
HZ		 IA
IG		 IH
IZ		 JA
JC		 JD
JH		 JJ
JP		 JQ
JS
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF
MAKER'S MARKS		 JT
JZ		 KA
LZ		 MA
MZ		 NA
PA		 PB
PZ		 QA
RH		 RK
RZ		 SA
SG		 SH
SZ		 TA
TH		 TI
TZ		 UA
WB		 WC
WF		 WG
WL		 WM
WS		 WT
ZZ
Moskow hallmark St Petersburg hallmark official marks - legge 5 Febbraio 1935 Paris 1818/1838 hallmarkParis 1797/1809 hallmark London town mark Sheffield town mark
Russian silver marks Italian silver marks French silver marks English silver marks
German silver hallmark Hanau silver hallmark Austrian silver hallmark Sanborn/Mexico silver mark
 Germany  Hanau  Austria  Mexico
Pelton Bros. Silver Plate Co. hallmarkRogers & Bro. - Waterbury CT hallmark Mappin & Webb hallmarkWalker & Hall hallmark Devices of Old Sheffiel Plate
American Silver Plate marks English Electroplate silver marks Old Sheffied Plate marks
Elkington hallmark 1842-1860 Georg Jensen hallmark 1945-1951 Gorham Athenic hallmarkGorham Martelé hallmark Tiffany hallmarks WMF hallmarks Reed & Barton mark
Elkington Georg Jensen Gorham Corporation Tiffany & Co WMF Reed & Barton
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