ELECTROPLATE SILVER AND SILVER PLATE

ALPHABETICAL 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
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,
Rogers & Bro. - Waterbury CT hallmark Mappin & Webb hallmarkWalker & Hall hallmark Tiffany & Co mark London Assay Office mark Devices of Old Sheffiel Plate
American Silver Plate marks British Electroplate Silver marks American Sterling Silver marks British Sterling Silver hallmarks Old Sheffied Plate marks
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