ELECTROPLATE SILVER AND SILVER PLATEALPHABETICAL GLOSSARY OF MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF SHEFFIELD MAKERS |
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| BRITISH ELECTROPLATED SILVER - ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF MAKER'S MARKS: MA-OZ |
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 |
| LISTING OF MARKS |
AA AZ |
BA BZ |
CA CZ |
DA DZ |
EA EZ |
FA FZ |
GA GZ |
HA HZ |
IA IZ |
JA JM |
JN KZ |
LA LZ |
MA OZ |
PA QZ |
RA RZ |
SA SZ |
TA UZ |
VA VZ |
WA ZZ |
| 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 Alphabetic symbols | 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 |
| | M & B | gothic inside a rectangle | Joseph Mappin & Brothers |
| ( M & B ) inside a waved outline rectangle | Mackay & Chisholm - Edinburgh |
| [ M & Co ] inside a shield | Marples & Co - Sheffield (possibly)-1900-1907 |
| | M | & | C° | Ltd | | R F Mosley & Co Ltd - Sheffield |
| | M || &| | C° ||EP||NS| | R F Mosley & Co - Sheffield |
| M & H over ARMITAGE over MOUSE over HOLE over FORGE | Brooks & Cooper - Sheffield - 1892-1919 |
| | M || &| | N ||symbol| | Martin & Naylor - Fargate, Sheffield - 1849-1854 |
| | M & S ] gothic inside a shield (symbol) inside an oval | Joshua Maxfield & Sons - 1894 |
| | M & S ] inside a shield (symbol) | Joshua Maxfield & Sons |
| M & S without contour (symbol) | Maxfield & Sons - Sheffield |
| | M & S over L] inside a shield | Joshua Maxfield & Sons - Sheffield & London |
| [ M ] [ &] [ W ] into shields | Mappin & Webb - Sheffield - c. 1863 |
| | M | (&) | W |(EP) | unidentified |
| ( M over & & over W ] in script inside a lozenge | Mappin & Webb - Sheffield & London - 1897 c. |
| |MACKAY & over CHISHOLM| inside a rectangle | Mackay & Chisholm - Edinburgh - 1882 |
| MACLAURIN BROS | Maclaurin Brothers - Sheffield- 1876-1893 |
| | MADRAS SILVER | inside a rectangle | Fisher - 1900-1925 |
| 'mallet' inside a 'bottle' | Aird & Anderson - Liverpool - 1892 |
| MANCO | William James Myatt & Co Ltd - Birmingham (possibly) |
| MANDARIN over CHIN 'figure' EASE | Adolph Arbenz - Birmingham . 1892 |
| MANOR PLATE over T.W & Co LTD | Thomas Wilkinson & Co - Sheffield |
| MAPLE & CO Ltd over LONDON | Maple & Co Ltd - London |
| MAPPIN & WEBB over LONDON | John Newton Mappin & George Webb - Sheffield & London - 1871-1880 c. | MAPPIN & WEBB over PRINCE'S PLATE | Mappin & Webb - 1887 | MAPPIN & WEBB'S over PRINCES PLATE | Mappin & Webb - Sheffield & London - 1899 c. |
| (MAPPIN BROS )inside an oval | Mappin Brothers, Queens Works - Sheffield & London |
| ('sun') |MAP over PIN||BROT over HERS| | Mappin Brothers - 1850 |
| ('sun') |MAPPIN||BROTHERS||B| | Mappin Brothers - 1865-1905 |
| MAPPIN-BROTHERS over 222.REGENT STREET over AND over LONDON.BRIDGE | Mappin Brothers - 1863-1894 |
| (MARCA DE COMERCIO over a 'guanaco' over GUANACO) inside a circle | J.& J. Drysdale & Co. - London |
| 'marine monster' (figural) over EP ON COPPER over |MADE IN ENGLAND| |
unidentified |
| MARSHALL over AND over SNELGROVE | Marshall & Snelgrove |
| (MARTINOID) inside a ribbon | a trade mark of Martin Hall & Co |
| M S interwined | Marshall & Snelgrove |
| MATCHLESS over an 'arrow' | Alfred Beckett & Sons - Sheffield - 1870c.-1919 |
| MATTHIAS SPENCER & SONS | Matthias Spencer & Sons |
| MAURICE BAUM over TRADE MARK over SHEFFIELD | Maurice Baum - Sheffield |
| MAZEPPA under a 'horse' | Samuel Hancock & Sons, Mazeppa Works |
| | M B | gothic inside a rectangle | Mappin Brothers, Queens Works |
| | M || B | | M. Beal |
| | M || B || C° | | William Mammatt, George Albert Buxton & Co - Sheffield - 1865-1867 |
| |M||B| gothic |MAP over PIN| | Mappin Brothers - 1848-1863 |
| M.B over MOULSON BROTHERS over CAST STEEL | Alfred Beckett & Sons - Sheffield - 1870c.-1919 |
| (M B over R under a 'crown' ) inside a 'padlock' | Mc Lean Brothers & Rigg Ltd - London |
| |M||B||'crown'||S| gothic | Maurice Baum - Sheffield - 1884 |
| M DE J L & S under a 'seashore landscape' inside a circle | M de J. Levi & Sons - London |
| MEDALLION gothic | William Tay & Sons Ltd - Birmingham - c. 1930 |
| MELIOR | a trade mark of Elkington & Co |
| MERIT under an 'acrobat | John Baker & Company, Wheeldon Works |
| METEOR inside a 'shovel' | Cocker Bros. Ltd - Sheffield - 1862c- 1919 |
| | MEXICAN SILVER | inside a rectangle | Thomas Ellin & Co - Sylvester Works - Sheffield 1892-1919 |
| (M)(G&S)(Co) gothic | The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd - London - 1880-1898 |
| [ M H over & C° ] inside a shield | Richard Martin & Ebenezer Hall & Co - 1854 |
| |M||H||& C°| gothic (A) [EP under a 'crown'] | Richard Martin & Ebenezer Hall & Co - 1860-1896 |
| | M | H | & C° | | Martin Hall & Co - 1854 - 1897 |
| [M H over & C°] inside a shield | Richard Martin Ebenezer Hall & Co Sheffield - 1854 |
| M H & C° | Martin Hall & Co - 1854 - 1897 |
| 'mitre' (figural) | George Bishop & Sons - 1890 c. |
| MITRE under a 'mitre' | George Bishop & Sons - 1890 c. |
| [MITRE] inside a shield | D. George Collins Ltd - London |
| MIXITINE | Swan & Adams, Canada Works - Birmingham. |
| MM&CO EPG3 into a lozenge | Martin Hall & Co |
| MONKEYunder a 'monkey' | Lockwood Brothers Ltd |
| MONTANA SILVER over Collings & Wallace in script | Collings & Wallace - Birmingham 1892 |
| MOSES EADON | Moses Eadon & Sons - Monmore Green - Sheffield - 1892 |
| MOTOR under a 'car' | Richard W. Carr & Co - Sheffield - 1892-1919 |
| [MP]('crown')(PRIME)('thistle')(AI) | Thomas Prime & Son - Birmingham - 1844-1894 |
| |M||R||&Co| 'gothic' (S)[EP under a 'crown'] | Richard Martin - Sheffield - 1854-1897 |
| [MS] intertwined into a shield | Barker-Ellis - Birmingham |
| | M | + | S | + | EP | | unidentified |
| ( M T over R under a 'crown' ) inside a lozenge | James McEwan & Co Ltd - London |
| MUNKA under a 'crown' | unidentified |
| | M | W | crown | S | | Mark Willis - 1872 - 1885 |
| | M | W | & | Co | gothic | Mappin Webb & Co - 1864 - 1872 |
| | M | W | & | S | | Mark Willis |
| M.W &W | Marples, Wingfield & Wilkins - Sheffield (possibly) |
| |M||W||'crown'||S|(EP) | Willis - 1873-1885 |
| (N & W) into an oval | Norton & White - Birmingham - 1873 |
| (N & W) into an shield | Norton & White - Birmingham |
| (N B over & over S) inside a trefoil | unidentified |
| [NC over &Co] into a shield | Naylor, Clark & Co - Birmingham - 1868 |
| (N)(C)|&||Co| gothic | Naylor, Clark & Co - Birmingham - 1869 |
| NEAL'S over PYRO SILVER | John Neal & Co - London |
| ( NEILL )inside an oval | Henry Wilkinson & Co |
| N.E.V.A. over EXPRESS | John Clarke & Sons- Sheffield |
| ( NEVADA SILVER ) inside two conjoined circles | Daniel & Arter - Globe Nevada Silver Works - Birmingham |
| NEVADA SILVER D & A | Daniel & Arter - Birmingham |
| NEW CALEDONIAN SILVER over a 'mermaid' | E.R. Martino - Birmingham |
| [NH over & Co] inside a shield | unidentified |
| ( NICKELINE ) | John Mcleownan Mc Murtrie - Glasgow |
| NINROD under a 'cap' | John Nodder & Sons - 1863 |
| | N J conjoined ||'dog' | 'crown' | |PYRO| | John Neal & Co - London |
| ( N over Ltd ) inside a triangle | John Nowill & Sons - 1928 - 1965 |
| [NODDER] inside a shield | John Nodder & Sons - Sheffield 1863-1904 |
| THE NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS | The Northern Goldsmiths - Newscastle-upon-Tyne |
| |N.SMITH &CO||'hand'| | N.Smith & Co - Waingate - Sheffield - 1784 |
| |N||V||&||T||S| | Needham, Veall & Tyzach - Sheffield - 1890 c. |
| [N.V.T over S] inside a shield | Needham, Veall & Tyzach - Sheffield |
| N.W. | Northon & White - Birmingham - 1883-1899 |
| [O & B Ld]|S||rhinoceros' head|[EP over NS]|A1| | Oliver & Bower Ltd - Sheffield |
| | O& E | inside a rectangle | Osborn & Elliot |
| |O||BROS| gothic | Owen Brothers - Sheffield (possibly) |
| |O||F||&||Co| | Oreste Franzi & Co - London |
| O I O | Clarke Shirley & Co - Sheffield 1892 |
| OLD and a 'circle' | Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering - Sheffield - 1892 |
| OLD and a 'circle' | WM J. Bingham (Clough Works) - Sheffield - 1864-1892 |
| ( ONWARD ) inside a ribbon | Slack & Grinold, Bath Works |
| OPOBA | Boswell, Hatfield & Co (Hope Works) - Sheffield - 1892-1919 |
| ORCHID | Britzius & Goldstrass - Sheffield - 1870-1919 |
| ORUBA | Walker & Hall - Sheffield |
| OSMINIUM SILVER | John Nodder & Sons - Sheffield 1863-1904 |
| OSYRIS under a 'pharaon' | Schurhoff & Co - Birmingham |
| (OUT) inside a 'shell' | Cocker Bros. Ltd - Sheffield - 1862c- 1919 |
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, EPCA, Electro Plated Copper Alloy,
EPGS - Electro Plated German Silver, EPMS - Electro Plated Magnetic Silver, African Silver, Albion Silver,
Alpha Plate, Ambassador Plate, Angle Plate, Argentium, Argentine Plate, Argentum,
Ascetic, Austrian Silver, Brazilian Silver, Britanoid, Cardinal Plate, Electrum, Embassy Plate, Encore, Exquisite,
Insignia Plate, Kingsley Plate, New Silver, Nevada Silver, Norwegian Silver, Pelican Silver, Potosi Silver,
Royal County Plate, Silva Seal, Silverite, Sonora Silver, Spur Silver, Stainless Nickel, Stainless Nickel
Silver, Unity Plate, Venetian Silver, Welbeck Plate,
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history, oddities ...
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