HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION - ILLUSTRATED LISTING WITH THE ADDITION OF SCOTTISH, IRISH, CHANNEL ISLANDS AND COLONIES SILVERMITHS

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	CM into a rectangle or C.M into a rectangle Charles Marsh, Dublin 1829 hallmark Dublin 1819 hallmark
	CM into an oval Charles Leopold Maas trading as Charles Maas & Co, 1a Aldermanbury Avenue, London London 1899 hallmark See the section of "TOBACCONISTS, PIPE MAKERS, PIPE MOUNTERS"
	CM into a rectangle Charles May, London 1946 hallmark
	C.M into a thin rectangle Charles Maas Charles Maas in partnership with Marcus Maas traded as Charles Maas & Co at 13 Crescent, London. See the section of "TOBACCONISTS, PIPE MAKERS, PIPE MOUNTERS" marks. London 1884 hallmark
	CME not identified, Birmingham import mark 1977 hallmark
	CNL into a chamfered rectangle Christopher Lawrence, London 1969 hallmark
	CO under a spoon Stephen Coleman, entered 1697 London 1698 hallmark
	CO under a device with three dots over two circles and a blossom Robert Cooper, London 1709 hallmark
	CO under a fleur de lys Augustine Courtauld, London 1722 hallmark
	C.P&Co into two conjoned ovals Charles Perry & Co , Chester 1929 hallmark
	CPB Charles Penny Brown, Birmingham 1907 hallmark
	C.P.S. not identified Birmingham 1966 hallmark

	CR Christian Ker Reid, Newcastle 1815c. hallmark
	CR into a rectangle Charles Reeves -possibly-, entered 1853 London 1853 hallmark
	CR Charles Robb , Edinburgh 1822 hallmark with M & S mark of the retailer Marshall & Sons
	C.R into a rectangle Charles Rawlings, London 1828 hallmark
	C.R.&S into an oblong rectangle C Robathan & Son, London 1962 hallmark
	CR over DR over CR into an oblong curved outline Reid & Sons -Christian Ker Reid, David Reid & Christian Bruce Reid, Newcastle 1841 hallmark
	CR over GS into a quatrefoil Charles Reily & George Storer, London 1828 hallmark
	CRICHTON George Crichton, Edinburgh 1856 hallmark
	CR over WS Charles Rawlings & William Summers, London 1841 hallmark
	CS into a rectangle Charles Shipway, entered 1836 London 1839 hallmark
	CS into two conjoined circles not identified, London 1975 hallmark
	CS over & over Hs into a trefoil C.S. Harris & Sons Ltd , entered 1904 London 1908 hallmark

CS FS into two separate rectangles Cornelius Saunders & Frank Shepherd, London 1898 hallmark (entered 1888) Chester 1893 (entered 1887) Saunders & Sheperd was founded in London by Cornelius Desormeaux Sanders Sr and James Francis Hollings Sheperd (1869). Became Saunders & Sheperd Ltd in 1899 and and Saunders, Sheperd & Co Ltd in 1916. Active at Bartlett's Building-Holborn Circus, London (1873-1902)

CS star FS Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings -Frank- Shepherd, London 1910 hallmark Birmingham 1898 hallmark Chester 1900 hallmark mark first registered in 1893.

	CSG over &Co into a shield Charles S Green & Co , Birmingham 1957 hallmark Business established in 1905 by Charles S. Green, son and brother of the managers of Charles Green & Son. He was assisted in the business by his wife Winifred, a talented artist who designed all the firm's early patterns. The firm moved in 1907 to Cogent Works, 54 St.Paul's Square and in 1982 to a new factory at Lionel Street, Birmingham
	C.S.H Charles Stuart Harris, London 1893 hallmark
	C.S over H into a trefoil Charles Stuart Harris, London 1892 hallmark
	C over S Ld into a trefoil Courtman Silver Ltd, London 2002 hallmark

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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 silver piece manufactured or traded in the UK. The marks are:

Town mark, corresponding to the mark of the Assay Office that has verified the piece

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

Maker's mark, identifying the silversmith presenting the piece to the assay office (usually the initials of Christian name and surname of the silversmith)

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 the duty