THE DIRECTORY OF AUSTRALIA SILVERSMITHS
MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF AUSTRALIAN SILVER
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AUSTRALIA SILVERSMITHS
ALPHABETICAL LISTING
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AUSTRALIAN SILVERSMITHS    A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z    NOT IDENTIFIED
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF MARKS
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J WA LK ER into rectangles not identified		 J WA LK ER into rectangles
New South Wales
c. 1860
NOT IDENTIFIED
 J&H STG.SILVER, not identified		 J&H STG.SILVER, not identified
NOT IDENTIFIED
m&m, not identified		 m&m,
not identified
NOT IDENTIFIED
R.E.F. and crossed hammers, not identified		 R.E.F. and crossed hammers
not identified
NOT IDENTIFIED
PH 'animal''human head''emu', not identified		 PH 'animal''human head' 'emu'
not identified



NOT IDENTIFIED
BS & HS not identified		 BS & HS into a rectangle
Victoria
c. 1840
NOT IDENTIFIED
BJ into a circle, not identified		 BJ into a circle,
not identified



NOT IDENTIFIED
CR M 'head looking left' not identified		 CR M 'head looking left'
Victoria (possibly)
c. 1870
NOT IDENTIFIED
L&S and various symbols (lion, kangaroo) not identified		 L&S and various symbols (lion, kangaroo) not identified




HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER - MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION
BRITISH TOWN MARKS AND DATE LETTERS
AUSTRALIA AND ITS SILVER
A BRIEF HISTORY
1841 map of Australia Colony
Australia in the 19th century was made up of six separate colonies, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia, South Australia (including, at this time, also the Northern Territories).
In term of working silversmiths only three colonies supported any number of craftsmen, namely South Wales capital, Sydney, Victoria, capital Melbourne and South Australia capital, Adelaide.
In the first half of the 19th century inhabitants of Australia were few tenths of thousands and pre 1850 Australian silver by comparison to colonial silver in general must be considered very rare.
Most working silversmiths with retail business carried imported silver or plated items as current stock and locally produced items were manufactured only to fulfill immediate orders (as presentation trophies) when the waiting time to order pieces from England was too long.
No form of official mark or date letter system was introduced into the hallmarking of Australian silver.
Early Australian silversmiths marked their objects with their full name or initials and imitations of English hallmarks as leopard's heads, lions and anchors.
In 1988 was formed the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia. A voluntary system of marking was introduced (maker's mark, standard mark, guild mark and date letter).





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