HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH AND BRITISH SILVER MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION THE DIRECTORY OF ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, IRISH, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND COLONIES SILVERMITHS

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	AC A Coghill, Glasgow 1847 hallmark
	AC into two conjoined circles Alfred Clark, London 1913 hallmark
	AC into a wavy round contour Albert Carter, Vicarage Works, 40 Frederick St, Birmingham, Birmingham 1945 hallmark
	AC into two separate squares not identified , London 1986 hallmark

	A.C into a shield Alexander Clark, entered Oct 1894 The Alexander Clark Manufacturing Company, entered May 1898, Sheffield 1898 hallmark MORE
	A.C &Co into an oblong chamfered rectangle Cohen & Charles -Albert Cohen & Charles Solomon- , firm established in 1890 in Vyse Street, Birmingham, with offices at 11 Thavies Inn, Holborn, London. In 1958 took over S.J. Rose & Sons (incorporated in the company in 1974). Chester 1896 hallmark Birmingham 1895
	A.C &Ss over Ld A C & Sons Ltd, London 1971 hallmark

	AC co over ld into an oval Alexander Clark & Co Limited, Business established in 1891 in London by Clift Alexander Mawer Clark known as Alexander Clark. The firm became The Alexander Clark Manufacturing Co in 1898 and The Alexander Clark Co Ltd in 1912 Birmingham 1925 hallmark Sheffield 1937 hallmark MORE
	A.C.H not identified, London 1951 hallmark
	AC over MCo into a shield Alexander Clark Manufacturing Co, Sheffield 1901 hallmark MORE

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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 piece.
The marks are:

Town mark, corresponding to the mark of the assay office that has verified the piece

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

Maker's mark, identifying the silversmith presenting the piece to the assay office

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 duty