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Illustrations
Marks C
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| C
& A - see Croft & Assinder. |
Croft & Assinder |
| C
& B - more information needed on foundry making trivets and stands. |
Marks C
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C & M trademark |
Marks C
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| 'L C '
mark mark on a spirit kettle in art nouveau style, yet to be identified. |
French Copper |
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Callcal ??
, England on domestic jug. Hand
beaten.
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Marks C
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L Cadec Ltd., further details welcome. British
or French? |
Marks C
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Cambron, USA
designer in brassware
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Marks C
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W.Canning &Co., Ltd., Great Hampton Street, Birmingham 18, polishing,
plating and lacquering supplies for industry. |
Marks C
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Cape Cod Shop,
near centre of one of the American art colonies developed in the 1890s.
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Cape
Cod Shop |
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http://www.cmfa.org/
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James Cartland
& Sons Brass foundry,
candlesticks, trivets, etc., Weaman Row,
then Armoury Close. Lt Green Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham
c1823-c1955. (see Butler)
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James Cartland & Co |
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Carron Foundry,
founded 1759, Falkirk, Scotland by Birmingham entrepeneurs. Famous
for ironwork, especially the ‘carronade’ and also cast some brass.
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Marks C
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http://www.falkirk-wheel.com/wheel/falkirk/information/Carron_Works.htm
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James T. Casey originally from Scotland. Jimmy lived
in Lynbrook New York and sold his ice buckets in the 1950s to Hammaker
Schlemmer |
Marks C
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CC41 Sign used to show that post war
domestic furniture and textiles conform to 'Utility' Standards. |
Marks C
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CDE
Carl Deffner, Esslingen, Germany, decorative tableware.
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Marks D
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CFE Co, actually OE
& Co Orme Evans & Co mark on art deco item. They were
founded in 1864, took over Henry Fearncombe in 1902 and seem to have
ceased trading in 1960, see:-
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Marks O P
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http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/orme/orme.htm |
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Chase Brass and
Copper Co., Inc, USA, founded 1876, still producing copper and brass.
There are several good books and other websites covering their very
collectable art deco period specialities.
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Marks C
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http://www.chasebrass.com/
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F A Chatwin, Birmingham. Further
information welcome. |
Marks C
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James Chesterman, Bow Works, Sheffield, tools for carpenters, trade
mark was a bow shape laying flat with JC therin. Amalgamated with Rabone |
Marks C
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Chippewa Copper mark under hand hammered products. |
Marks C |
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Christofle & Cie., Saint Denis, France, |
Marks C |
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'Clayrite'
Trade Mark on an oil can. More information welcome. |
Marks C |
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A, Clement, Nottingham, mark on a tankard dated c1900.
More details welcome. |
Nottingham Tankards |
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Clews, James Clews, 195, Aston Road, Birmingham,
kettles, candlesticks, bells, etc.
Clews, F & H, was
taken over by Pearson Page Jewsbury in the 1930s |
James Clews Family |
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Charles Clifford & Son,
Birmingham, fabricators of copper and brass. |
Marks C |
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Confecsilios,
Bogota, Colombia, quality tableware
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Marks Co-Cz
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James Collins, 26, Cumberland Street, Birmingham, brassfounder |
Marks Co-Cz
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| H.S Cooke &
Co., 116 Northwood St., Lakeside, Redditch, Birmingham, still making springs Trade name ‘Protex’ oilers |
H
S C
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Coppercraft Guild,
Taunton, Mass., copperware for the home, now Home Interiors.
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(for Coppercraft, see also
Gregorian Copper)
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Marks G
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Copper Craft ,
Guernsey Jugs.
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Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
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Copper Development
Association Inc., N.Y. Copper quality mark.
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Marks Co-Cz
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http://www.copper.org
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Copperworks,
California, quality architectural rainwater goods.
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Marks
Co-Cz
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http://www.copperworks.net/
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| Cornish Copper Company |
Producers |
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The Coseley Brassfoundry, White Street, Coseley,
Staffordshire. William John Gough registered designs for cast trivets
in 1931. |
Marks Co-Cz
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Coventry Craft,
Chicago
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Marks Co-Cz
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Crane Foundry,
trivets, irons, door furniture and other hardware, Wolverhampton.
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Marks Co-Cz
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http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/OtherTrades/CraneFoundry/Foundry.htm |
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Crane Industries, Crane Ware, a division of The
Hercules Cycle and Motor Co. Ltd., Manor Mills, Aston, Birmingham 6. with
offices in London and Manchester. |
Marks Co-Cz
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Craftsman Copper,
Craftsmen, Inc., successor to Craftsman Studios Company of Laguna
Beach, California.
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Marks Co-Cz
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Crofts & Assinder,
(C & A), Lombard St.,
Birmingham, founded 1875 still in production of hardware.
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Croft & Assinder
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Currie & Warner Ltd., Summer Hill Works, Powell Street, Birmingham, B1
3DH, brassfounders since before 1865 and still machining brass. |
Marks Co-Cz
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| http://www.curriewarner.com/ |
| Cycle Components Mfg Co
Ltd. Birmingham, makers of accessories such as brass pumps. |
Photo to come
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Illustrations
Marks D
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M & D, 30, Greene Street, New York copper cooking pan.
Details welcome. |
Marks
D
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D & E Co Ltd., unknown mark under a pressed copper
ashtray. |
Marks
D
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| Dalarna, Sweden.
Mark on a modern Swedish spun copper sugar bowl. |
Swedish Copperware |
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Davey & Co.,
Guernsey jugs
|
Guernsey
& Jersey Jugs
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| Davies and Hill, 56-60, Pritchett Street.
Birmingham B6, brassfoundry. |
DAVILL
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| Davis &
Mawson, 17 & 20 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, then Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham, brassfounders, oilers. |
Photo wanted.
|
| Maurice Davis and
Heaps, Birmingham, now Mosda, lighters |
Photo wanted.
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| http://www.smokersdirectory.org/first_light2.htm |
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DeHillerin
, cookware, founded 1820.
Paris, France. (Photo courtesy Sarah & John Hardcastle)
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Marks
D
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http://www.e-dehillerin.fr/
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Delta Metal
Co,
originally at Greenwich, London, on the site now occupied by the Millennium
Dome and at Dartmouth Street, Birmingham,
innovators
of Dick's extrusion process for brass. New factory in West Bromwich, near
Birmingham now closed. Delta bronze IV was an early free-machining brass
for hot stampings and extrusions.
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Marks
D
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Derricourt
Brassware Ltd.,
'Lombard'.
Great Tindale Street, Birmingham 16, see 'LOMBARD' |
Marks L |
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Dervelea
– Derverlea Products Ltd., 44 Princip Street, Aston Cross, Birmingham, decorative holloware.
1930's
|
Marks
D
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| Desmo,
Scholefield Road,
Birmingham 7, accessories for motor cars and aircraft. |
Marks
D
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| Dinanderie
products of the historic brassmaking town in Belgium. |
Marks Di-Dz |
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DM Co
– unknown mark on a copper tray.
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Dirigold, USA, tableware 'Dirilyte' trade name.
Three clover motif. |
|
William Dowler
& Sons.
Graham St. Works, Birmingham 1 |
Buttonmakers Birmingham |
|
Down Bros,
21 & 23 Thomas
Street, SE1 and other addresses in London Surgical instruments.
|
Marks Di-Dz
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Christopher Dresser
The majority of items made to his designs do not bear his signature.
There are many websites and books.
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|
Drew & Sons of Piccadilly Circus in London had a
shop selling goods including splendid picnic sets. |
| DRGM
German patent mark (meaning Deutsches Reich Geschmacksmuster (or
Gebrauchmuster?)).
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Drumgold,
California, hand wrought tableware.
|
Marks Di-Dz
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Dryad Lester,
quality copperware, mainly bowls. More information needed.
|
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Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse Co. 110, W 22nd Street, New York.
Copper cookware until 1936. |
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Dyer, Herbert, Herbert
Dyer worked in Mousehole during the 1920s, influenced by the Newlyn School
of craftsmen near Penzance, Cornwall.
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Illustrations
Marks E
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| Earl Bourne & Co,
Birmingham Tube Works,
Hopper St., Spring Hill, Birmingham, the Heath Street South,
Birmingham 18, tubes, strip, bedstead fittings, drawn wires,
late 19th century. Taken over by Delta Metal Co. |
Marks
E
|
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Eclat unknown
mark on table lighter
|
Marks
E
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Donald Edward Ltd Wire Workers in Price St.,
later garden syringe manufacturers at same address, then at Little
Edward St, Bordesley, Birmingham. |
Marks
E
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Walter Charles
Edwards, NRD, coppersmith (1871-1956)
studied at The Guild of Handicraft with C R Ashbee and William Morris at
Chipping Campden. He worked in the moulding shop at Cadbury's factory
at Bourneville, Birmingham. |
Marks
E
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Elkington,
Newhall Street and other sites, founded in Birmingham in the 1840s pioneering electroplate, electrotyping,
Sheffield silver and other products.
Set up refinery to make their copper requirements.
Several mentions on websites and in references. For
silverware, their mark was that of a crown over 'E' & 'C' in a shield.
At the Great Exhibition of 1851 they exhibited under the name ‘Elkington and Mason’.
Their factory became Birmingham Museum of Science and Technology, now
sadly closed.
Elkington Copper
Refiners Walsall works was taken over by IMI Metals.
|
Elkington & Co.
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| http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/prints/greatexhib/bytype/display00084.html |
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Ellett Copper & Brass Co., Vancouver, BC Canada
domestic coppersmiths until the early 1960s. (Thanks to Rob) |
Marks
E
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Elpec -
Lloyd Pascal & Co, 71-74 Ford Street, Hockley, (Jewellery
Quarter) Birmingham, then Cherry Wood Road. Antique and
reproductions. Household and
souvenir brassware, 1900s-60s.
Trade name lapsed in 1972.
|
Elpec
Brass
|
|
Elvicta Elliott-Lucas, Church Street, Oldbury ?? near Birmingham, small
tools including levels and gauges. |
|
|
Emca, maker of whistles, more details needed |
Photo to come |
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Empress Ware,
New York Stamping Co., Brooklyn, NY.
|
Marks
E
|
| Enots - see Benton & Stone. |
Marks B |
|
EPNS - Abbreviation for electro-plated nickel
silver. |
|
| Ewart
& Son Ltd.,
346-350,
Euston Road, London NW. manufacturers of copper water heaters, ventilators
and similar products from Victorian times until the 1960s. |
Marks
E
|
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Knut Eriksson Co,
Cookware, Eskiltuna, Sweden. Possibly named after an early Swedish king.
|
Marks
E
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Essex Brass,
Detroit, Mich, founded 1901, still making brass fittings.
|
Marks
E
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|
http://www.essexbrass.com/essex.htm
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'ETAS' Enoch Tonks & Sons Ltd., Temple Works,
Temple Bar, Willenhall, Black Country, West Midlands. |
Marks T |
|
Ettingshall,
mark on cast brass trivet. Probably
from Thomas Holcroft & Sons Ltd., Ettingshall foundry in Wolverhampton,
founded c1830, closed 1969.
|
Marks
E
|
|
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/holcroft/holcroft.htm |
| Eustace
Brothers - see
|
J & F Poole Hayle Copper |
|
Evans & Matthews, 80, Bull St., Birmingham. |
Marks
E
|
| Evered & Co., Surrey Works Lewisham Road,
Smethwick, Birmingham, made bedsteads, gas and electric fittings, solid and brass cased steel
tubes. Their trade mark was a shield with RE&S inside, E&C
underneath. |
Photo to come
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|
EVW –
E. V Wilkes, Birmingham
|
E V Wilkes |
| Ewart
and Son Ltd.,
25a Paradise Street, Birmingham, geysers and water heaters.
|
Marks
E
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'Ezeglide', Trade Name registered for a brand of
curtain rail section made from brass. |
Marks
E
|
|
http://www.ewart.org/Master.htm?http://www.ewart.org/Miscellaneous/EwartAndSon.htm
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Illustrations
Marks F
|
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| AFC
Adolph Frankau
& Co, 121, Queen Victoria Street, London, manufacturers and merchants
who registered several designs during the 1880. |
Marks
F
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FAIB,
unknown mark on copper tray
|
Marks
F
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| Falk, Stadelmann & Co.,
., Veritas House,
Lionel Street, Birmingham |
Lamp Makers A-R |
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Farberware,
Farber Brothers was founded 1900 in Manhattan, New York, ‘Farberware’
™ name introduced 1930.
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Marks
F
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Farrow and Jackson,
Ltd., 24, Eastminster & 91, Mansell St. Aldgate, London E1,
brewers engineers. 'Bernard M. Watney,
Farrow & Jackson, Limited: Wine and Spirit Merchants and General Engineers'.
A facsimile of the 1898 catalogue was printed in 1997, 187pp ISBN:
0903685582 |
Marks
F
|
| Fattorini
Bradford Works,
Birmingham - see - |
Button Makers, Medallists and Mints |
|
H F Fearncombe
& Co, Wolverhampton, Phoenix trade mark. They made some items such as jugs to Christopher Dresser
designs.
They were taken over by Orme Evans in 1902. Note that the use of a phoenix in a trade mark was popular with other firms, Joseph Nichols & Son is just one example.
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Marks
F
|
|
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/fearncombe/fearncombe01.htm |
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James Fellows & Son, Pool Street, Wolverhampton,
founded 1865 making trays, tray blanks and hollowware. |
Marks
F
|
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Festival
of Britain – a ‘Britain Can Make It’ exhibition staged 100 years after the 1851 Great Exhibition.
This mark means items are of special interest to collectors.
|
Festival of Britain
|
| |
| Fiddian Foundry
-
see James Barwell. |
Marks B |
| Firmin & Sons
Ltd., Globe Works, Villa Street, Aston, button makers. |
Button Makers, Medallists and Mints |
|
Fisher
Ludlow, originally Fisher and
Ludlow of 29, Rea St., Birmingham, manufacturing pressings from
sheet, latterly manufactured automotive body panels.
Now based in Canada.
|
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F & R Fischer, twin fish mark on a kettle, German
|
Marks
F
|
| Flemish Copper B.P Co
Benedict Proctor Mfg. Co. of Trenton, Ontario, Canada. |
Marks
F |
| W
T French & Co, 23, St. Mary Street, Ladywell, Birmingham,
later of
Browning Street, Ladywood B16, makers of
‘Mysto’ garden sprays |
MYSTO |
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Illustrations
Marks G
|
|
|
'G' over a hand -
unknown mark on modern hand-made copper wall sconce.
Further information needed.
|
Marks
G
|
| G.W.S & S mark
on a picnic kettles made for a retailer in Regent St., London. |
Marks
S
|
| Percy
Gabriel & Co, founded as a brass foundry in 1884 at 4 & 5 AB Row, Birmingham,
making brass components including oilers. They moved to Tyseley in 1996, now specialises in stainless steels. |
Marks
G |
| http://www.gabrielco.com/company.htm |
|
GAD
– unknown mark , further information needed.
|
Marks
G
|
|
MG monogram of Margaret Gilmour, Glasgow School. |
Marks G |
|
R. G & Co. mark on a tea caddy. The second 'G'
may stand for Glasgow. Information wanted. |
Marks G |
| Garrison,
Trademark of Newton, Shakespeare and Company Ltd. Birmingham. |
Marks N |
|
Gaskell & Chambers Ltd. Solihull, Birmingham, bar
furniture, now IMI Cornelius (UK) Limited., Gaskell & Chambers Division,
23-27 Chartwell Drive, Wigston, Leicester. LE18 2FL |
Marks G |
| J R Gaunt & Sons, |
Button Makers |
|
Geschützt,
Geschutz,
Geschuetz,
German mark covering a proprietary copyright, used until 1883. Not the mark of a maker. This one is on a candlestick base.
|
Marks
G
|
|
Ges. Gesch. (gesetzlich
geschützt) used in Austria and Germany to note copyright protected
design. |
|
| James Gibbons Ltd., now James Gibbons Format, Wolverhampton, door furniture founded 1670 by James Gibbons and in the 19th century claimed to be ‘the oldest established lockmaker in Britain’. They then diversified into a wide range of quality architectural ironwork.
(Took over a firm called Kempson?) |
Marks
G |
| http://www.jgf.co.uk/comp_fr.htm |
| S Gill &
Co., Ltd., 185 Brearly Street, Birmingham, electrical horn makers. |
S
G & C |
|
Gittins
Craftsmen Ltd.,
Ocean Chambers, Clifford Street, Lozells, Birmingham, merged with Birmingham
School of Handicrafts 1905, merged again in 1919 with Hart, Son, Peard & Co.
Ltd. which lasted until the late 1950s. |
Birmingham Guild |
| Mike Glander,
coppersmith ('G' Hand) |
Marks
G
|
|
Glasgow School of Art.
Most Glasgow copper is unmarked.
|
Marks
G
|
|
http://www.artscrafts.org.uk/branches/glasgow.html
|
|
Glencroft
Copper,
with its mark of the Big G and little candle, was started in South
Buffalo, NY in 1948, moved to Clarence in 1954 and is now based in
Tonawanda NY.
|
Marks
G
|
| Gomm
Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 56 Hockley Hill, Birmingham B 18. Mid 20th
century production, 'WEBAWARE' Trade Mark lapsed 1950 |
Marks W-Z |
|
Goose Bay Workshops LLC, 10137 Seashore Hwy,
Bridgeville, DE 19933, USA. |
Marks
G
|
| Gorham
Manufacturing Co. Providence, Rhode Island, Silversmiths and
metalworkers from 1848, now a subsidiary of Lenox Inc. Gorham®. |
Marks
G
|
|
R. Greenlees & Co. Ltd.,
30, 32, 35 & 37 East Howard Street, Glasgow (1896) 42, Great Clyde Street,
Glasgow, (1927) works in Norfolk Court, japanners, grinders and polishers,
manufacturing ironmongers and hardware merchants. R. G & Co.
mark on a tea caddy. |
Marks
G
|
|
Gregorian Copper,
made in the 1980’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then Lemmon, South
Dakota. (Not to be confused with Georgian copper of around the 18th
century!)
|
Marks
G
|
|
The Griffin Foundry, Fireplace and Sanitary Fittings
Limited, England. |
Marks
G |
|
Griffiths &
Browett, Birmingham, makers of holloware including samovars and food
warmers. Probably connected with T E Griffiths & Co., also of Birmingham.
Details wanted. |
Marks
G |
|
Grillby Metallfabrik, Grillby, Sweden, makers of
holloware including kettles. |
Swedish Copperware |
|
Griswold™ -
Wagner Manufacturing Co of 440 Fair Ave, Sidney, Ohio. |
Marks
G |
| Guernsey Jugs
|
Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers) |
|
Guests
Brass Stamping Co., Selly Oak, B29, hot stamping makers taken over by
Birmingham Battery Metal Co. |
Marks
G |
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Marks H-L |
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