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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	D & A into a rectangle Daniel & Arter, Highgate Street, Birmingham Birmingham 1902 hallmark (entered 1882)
	D & B Docker & Burn Ltd, Birmingham 1926 hallmark
	D & B Ld into an oval not identified , London 1935 hallmark
	D over & over D S into a trefoil Davis, Duff & Son, Royal Exchange, Glasgow Birmingham 1938 hallmark
	D & F into two conjoined circles Deakin & Francis, Founded in 1786, Deakin & Francis is today, seven generations later, still owned and managed by the Deakin family (James, Henry and David Deakin). In recent times the house speciality has become the manufacture of a large range of gentlemen's cufflinks. Birmingham 1924 hallmark
	D& H (gothic) into a chamfered rectangle Deykin & Harrison Limited, entered 1924 Birmingham 1938 hallmark DEYKIN & HARRISON history and information
	D&H (gothic) into a indented chamfered rectangle Deykin & Harrison, Birmingham 1905 hallmark DEYKIN & HARRISON history and information
	D & H into three squares Deykin & Harrison Limited, entered 1924 Birmingham hallmark and Dublin import mark 1911 DEYKIN & HARRISON history and information
	D & I into a rectangle Danziger & Isaacs, Victor Block & Arthur Danziger Isaacs 9 Vyse Street, Birmingham and 26-27 Hatton Garden, London Birmingham 1904 hallmark
	D&J over W into a shield D & J Welby Limited, entered 1910 London 1912 hallmark
	D & M not identified, Birmingham 1871 hallmark
	D&M over D into a shield D & M Davis -David & Maurice Davis-, Active in Livery Street, Birmingham since 1896. The firm continues its activity under the style D&M Davis Ltd Birmingham 1906 hallmark

	D & P into three circles Davies & Powers , Birmingham 1933 hallmark
	D & S into an indented rectangle Duncan & Scobbie , Birmingham 1914 hallmark
	D & S into three coinjoined circles not identified, Sheffield 1964 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 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