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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	C & A Collett & Anderson London 1919 hallmark
	C & C Albert Cohen & Charles Soloman - Cohen & Charles the firm Cohen & Charles was established in 1890 at 11 Thavies Inn, Holborn, London. In 1958 the business was bought by S.J. Rose & Sons Ltd Sheffield 1959 hallmark Birmingham 1909 hallmark

	C & C Collins & Cook Birmingham 1965 hallmark
	C & C not identified London 1927 hallmark

	C&Co Carrington & Co 130 Regent Street, London A retailer silversmith acting for a while as London showroom of G.B. Collis & Co, Birmingham. London 1908 hallmark
	C& Co into a chamfered indented rectangle Collingwood & Co entered 1912 London 1963 hallmark
	C&F into a rectangle Cropp & Farr 94 Hatton Garden, London Birmingham 1901 hallmark
	C & N Crisford & Norris Birmingham 1902 hallmark
	C&R over C into a trefoil Charles & Richard Comyns London 1919 hallmark

	C&SLtd Clark & Sewell Ltd Sheffield 1937 hallmark
	C&SLtd Collingwood & Sons - possibly- Horatio Nelson Collingwood trading as Collinwood & Son Linthorpe Road - Middlesborough Birmingham 1937 hallmark
	C&Sns into an oblong rectangle Chaplin & Sons The firm was founded in 1833 by Robert James Chaplin. The business was closed in the mid 1920s London 1896 hallmark
	C&W Catchpole & Williams Ltd - possibly- London 1972 hallmark

London	Birmingham	Dublin	Edinburgh	Sheffield	Chester

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