BRITISH ELECTROPLATE SILVER AND SILVER PLATE MARKS

ALPHABETICAL GLOSSARY OF MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF SHEFFIELD AND BIRMINGHAM MAKERS

WITH THE ADDITION OF OTHER BRITISH, SCOTTISH AND IRISH MAKERS
THE STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO DECRYPT AND IDENTIFY SILVERPLATE MARKS
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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 "Sheffield silver marks" you are searching for, and the silver plate marks identification, the alphabetical order in this page refers to hallmark's letters or to "figural" definition (NOT to firm's name: further details following the STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO SILVERPLATE MARKS)
|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 silver plate hallmark
gothic : the letters are in gothic style
date indicates approximate period of firm's activity

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF SILVERPLATE 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   

SILVERPLATE MANUFACTURERS: MARKS' IMAGE & HISTORY
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    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   

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|ALPHABETICAL GLOSSARY OF MARKS MAKER - PERIOD
| M & B | gothic inside a rectangle Joseph Mappin & Brothers
[ M & C ] 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&G| ['cup' figural] unidentified
M & H over ARMITAGE over MOUSE over HOLE over FORGE Brooks & Cooper - Sheffield - 1892-1919
[M](&)(I)(B) 'gothic' unidentified
| 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&W) into a lozenge Mappin & Webb - Sheffield
|M|(&)| W|(S)(&)(L) Mappin & Webb - Sheffield & London
( M over & & over W ] in script inside a lozenge Mappin & Webb - Sheffield & London - 1897 c.
(M & Y) inside an oval Maleham & Yeomans - Sheffield - 1901 - 1931
(M)(&)(Y)(S) inside four ovals Maleham & Yeomans - Sheffield (possibly)
|MACKAY & over CHISHOLM| inside a rectangle Mackay & Chisholm - Edinburgh - 1882
|MACKAY||CUNNINGHAM||& CO| inside three rectangles Mackay Cunningham & Co - Edinburgh
MACLAURIN & DENNIS Maclaurin & Dennis - Sheffield
MACLAURIN BROS Maclaurin Brothers - Sheffield- 1876-1893
| MADRAS || SILVER | inside two rectangles Harrison Fisher & Co - Sheffield
MAJESTIC a trade mark of James Jay - London
MALBOROUGH èLATE a trade mark of Selfridge & Co Ltd - London
|MALEHAM & YEOMANS| inside a rectangle Maleham & Yeomans - Sheffield - 1901 - 1931
MALKINA SILVER unidentified
'mallet' inside a 'bottle' Aird & Anderson - Liverpool - 1892
MANCO William James Myatt & Co Ltd - Birmingham
MANDARIN over CHIN 'figure' EASE Adolph Arbenz - Birmingham . 1892
MANOR PERIOD Travis Wilson & Co Ltd - Sheffield
MANOR PLATE Travis Wilson & Co Ltd - Sheffield
MAPLE & CO Ltd over LONDON Maple & Co Ltd - London
|MAPLE||& CO||LONDON| into three rectangles 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
MAPPIN PLATE a trade mark of Mappin & Webb - Sheffield & London
(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
MARKHAM overGAINSBORO unidentified
MARSDEN unidentified
MARSHALL over AND over SNELGROVE Marshall & Snelgrove
MARSHES & SHEPERD Marshes & Sheperd - Sheffield
(MARTINOID) inside a ribbon a trade mark of Martin Hall & Co
M S interwined Marshall & Snelgrove
|MATADOR| Slack & Barlow - Sheffield
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 | Michael Beal - Sheffield
| M || B ||&|| C° | William Mammatt, George Albert Buxton & Co - Sheffield
|MB||&S| into two chamfered rectangles unidentified
|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
|MB over S| gothic into a square contour Maurice Baum - Sheffield
|M||B||'crown'||S| gothic Maurice Baum - Sheffield
| M || B | |S| Michael Beal - Sheffield
|M||B||R||D||P| unidentified
| M | | Co| 'gothic' |MAPPIN| |'crown'| into four squares Mappin & Webb - Sheffield (Mappin & Co)
MD 'fleur de lys' unidentified
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
|MEDOVA| John Round & Son - Sheffield
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 or inside a six-sided polygon 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
MH&CO EPG3 into a lozenge Martin Hall & Co
|M||H||&||S|(horn: figural) Michael Hunter & Son - Sheffield
MILLER & SONS over LONDON over 179 PICCADILLY Miller & Sons - London
'mitre' (figural) George Bishop & Sons - Sheffield
MITRE under a 'mitre' George Bishop & Sons - Sheffield
[MITRE] inside a shield D. George Collins Ltd - London
MITRE trade mark of Daniel George Collins Ltd - London
MIXITINE Swan & Adams, Canada Works - Birmingham.
(M.L)[&]|Co||G| Hamilton, Laidlaw & Company - Glasgow (possibly)
| MLJ | unidentified
|M||symbol||M||B||G| unidentified
|M.M.HENDERSON LD| M.M. Henderson Ltd - Glasgow
MONKEYunder a 'monkey' Lockwood Brothers Ltd
MONTANA SILVER Collings & Wallis - Birmingham
MonteCristo unidentified
|MORTONS over PATENT| Richard Morton & Co - Birmingham (possibly)
MOSES EADON Moses Eadon & Sons - Monmore Green - Sheffield - 1892
MOTOR under a 'car' Richard W. Carr & Co - Sheffield - 1892-1919
crown "mouse" (figural) |B S & Co| B. Street & Co - Birmingham
[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
(MS&Co) into an oval unidentified
| M | + | S | + | EP | Maurice Stables - Sheffield (possibly)
| M.S Ld| Maurice Stables Ltd - Sheffield
| MS Ld| Maurice Stables Ltd - Sheffield
M.S. Ltd 'without contour' Maurice Stables Ltd - Sheffield
[M.S. Ltd] 'into a shield' Maurice Stables Ltd - Sheffield
| M.S LT.D| under a 'goat' (figural) Maurice Stables Ltd - Sheffield
( M T over R under a 'crown' ) inside a lozenge James McEwan & Co Ltd - Melbourne and London
M T R 'crown' 'crown' into five lozenges James McEwan & Co Ltd - Melbourne and London
M T R 'crown' B into five lozenges James McEwan & Co Ltd - Melbourne and 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° 1| inside a rectangle or an oval Anthony Burton
(N & H) into into two conjoined circles Nathan & Hayes - Birmingham
(N)(&)(S)(L) gothic unidentified
(N & W) into an oval Norton & White - Birmingham - 1873
(N & W) into a shield Norton & White - Birmingham
NATS SILVER unidentified
|N||B||&||N| 'gothic' unidentified
(N B over & S) inside a trefoil Nayler Brothers & Son(s) - London (possibly)
[NC over &Co] into a shield Naylor, Clark & Co - Birmingham - 1868
(N)(C)|&||Co| gothic Naylor, Clark & Co - Birmingham - 1869
[NCJ over LTD] into a shield VICEROY PLATE unidentified
NEAL'S over PYRO SILVER John Neal & Co - London
( NEILL ) inside an oval Henry Wilkinson & Co
( NEILL ) [J]|R|&)[J]|N| John Roberts & John Neill - Sheffield (possibly)
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
|NEWALL| unidentified
NEW CALEDONIAN SILVER over a 'mermaid' E.R. Martino - Birmingham
(NFCO) into a quatrefoil unidentified
( NICKELINE ) John Mcleownan Mc Murtrie - Glasgow
NIMROD under a 'cap' John Nodder & Sons - Sheffield 1863-1904
[N][J] 'symbol' [E][P] unidentified
| N J conjoined ||'dog' | 'crown' | |PYRO| John Neal & Co - London
( N over Ltd ) inside a triangle John Nowill & Sons - Sheffield - 1928 - 1965
[NODDER] inside a shield John Nodder & Sons - Sheffield 1863-1904
NON XLL Unwin & Rodgers - Sheffield
NORBRIA SILVER a trademark of Frederick C. Asman & Co - Sheffield (possibly)
THE NORTHERN GOLDSMITHS The Northern Goldsmiths - Newscastle-upon-Tyne
NORWEGIAN SILVER William Gallimore & Sons - Sheffield
NOUMEA SILVER James Dixon & Sons - Sheffield
|NOWILL||D*| John Nowill & Sons - Sheffield
|N||S| into two squares a generic mark for Nickel Silver
|N.SMITH &CO||'hand'| N.Smith & Co - Waingate - Sheffield - 1784
|N||S||P||W| on a Walker & Hall mark
|N||T||S||K||&||C||O| unidentified
|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 & London
[O & B over Ltd over S] Oliver & Bower Ltd - Sheffield & London
|O&Co B| inside a rectangle unidentified
| O& E | inside a rectangle Osborn & Elliot
|O||BROS| gothic Owen Brothers - Sheffield (possibly)
|OETZ MANN||& Co||XLSP| Oetzmann & Co Ltd - London
|O||F||&||Co| Oreste Franzi & Co - London
O I O Clarke Shirley & Co - Sheffield 1892
[OJS] inside a shield unidentified
OLD and a 'circle' Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering - Sheffield - 1892
OLD and a 'circle' WM J. Bingham (Clough Works) - Sheffield - 1864-1892
OLDFIELDS LIMITED Oldfields Limited - Liverpool and Birmingham
ONTARIO SILVER trademark of Edwin Blyde & Co - Sheffield
( ONWARD ) inside a ribbon Slack & Grinold, Bath Works
OPOBA Boswell, Hatfield & Co (Hope Works) - Sheffield - 1892-1919
|OPOBA| Sheffield Silver Plate & Cutlery Co Ltd - after 1920
ORAMA Walker & Hall - Sheffield
ORBIT SILVER unidentified
ORCHID Britzius & Goldstrass - Sheffield - 1870-1919
ORUBA Walker & Hall - Sheffield
|OS over BORN||&||SONS| in script, into three squares Osborn & Sons - Sheffield & Birmingham
|OSLER.L.d| into a rectangle F&C Osler Ltd - Sheffield
OSMINIUM SILVER John Nodder & Sons - Sheffield 1863-1904
|OS||MO||ND| into three squares unidentified
OSYRIS under a 'pharaon' Schurhoff & Co - Birmingham
(OUT) inside a 'shell' Cocker Bros. Ltd - Sheffield - 1862c- 1919
OWEN & LEVICK Owen & Levick - Sheffield

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, Austrian Silver, Brazilian Silver, Buxbridge, Electrum, Encore, Exquisite, Insignia Plate, Nevada Silver, Norwegian Silver, Pelican Silver, Potosi Silver, Silverite, Sonora Silver, Spur Silver, Stainless Nickel, Stainless Nickel Silver, Venetian Silver, W.M White Metal,....





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STERLING SILVER OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF MAKER'S MARKS
AA/AE    AF/AZ    BA/BZ    CA/CH    CI/CZ    DA/DZ    EA/EZ    FA/FZ    GA/GZ    HA/HG    HH/HZ    IA/IG    IH/IZ    JA/JC    JD/JI    JJ/JP    JQ/JS    JT/JZ    KA/LZ    MA/MZ    NA/PA    PB/PZ    QA/RJ    RK/RZ    SA/SG    SH/SZ    TA/TH    TI/TZ    UA/WB    WC/WF    WG/WL    WM/WS    WT/ZZ   

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