Marks Me - Mz

(c) Vin Callcut 2002-2021.

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Messenger and Son.

E Miller Co.

MoD Copper Jugs

Muntz Metal Co.

R. Mead, Richard Mead worked in Rhodesia, now Zambia. Good quality rectangular planters and other very decorative copper. Illustrations  Rhodesia  
   
Mears - mark on bells made in Whitechapel Bell FoundryBell Foundry.  
   
Georg von Mendelssohn,  Hellerau near Dresden, Germany, c 1915/ 1920. German Copper  
   
Messenger & Sons. Birmingham, candelabra, lamps and gas fittings. Messenger & Sons  
   
metwa  
N. V. Metawa, Tiel, Holland, name from 'metalware',  Trade name Metad'or for brass but also made pewterware, founded 1923 in the same town as Daalderop and Kurz.  Closed 1982, briefly revived but finally closed 1985. (information courtesy Aart W. Korstens)  
   
mewco  
Mewco Metal Products, Shepparton, Victoria, AustraliaCopper jugs, etc.,  
   
gilmour  
MG mark on a sconce, this being the mark of Margaret Gilmour of Glasgow. Marks G  
   
miami  
Miami Brass Foundry, Dayton, Ohio.  This mark on a brass reproduction of a Coalbrookdale cast iron dish.  
   
Midland Lighting Co., 7, Corporation Street, Stanhope St. and Leopold Street, Birmingham manufacture the ‘Lampe Belge’.  
   
  Edward Miller Co., Meriden, CT. makers of oil lamps and other holloware. E Miller Co.  
   
 
 

 Minneapolis Handicraft Guild, 10th St & Marquette Av.S., Minneapolis, started in 1905, it ran until 1918 when it was incorporated into the University of Minnesota as the Department of Art Education.  A book: "Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915" by Michael Conforti covers the Guild. Mirror imaged pair of peacocks reoccur in their work.  Harold L Boyle and Harry S Michie were the main metalworkers. 

 
   
mitchell  
Mitchell, Canada, maker's mark under a fire lighter made from an old 4" shell case.  More information will be welcome.  
   
moffat  
 
Moffat's, makers of patent candlesticks fabricated from sheet brass in Birmingham & Scotland, with their patent ejectors. In the 1835 directory, James Moffatt is at 11, Court, Thomas Street, Birmingham, tinplate worker.  
   
 Monitor Engineering & Oil Appliances Ltd., Monitor Works, Redhill Road, Hay Mills, Stechford, Birmingham, making camp stoves & paraffin blowlamps. They were later owned by Parkinson, then successively Parkinson Cowan and Thorn EMI before being sold to the Swedish Electrolux in 1987 and subsequently closed.  
   
Monkeys, Wise Brass. Three Wise Monkeys.  
   
gunga din  
Moorgate (Birmingham) Ltd., 84-5 Ryland Road, Birmingham, maker of 'Gunga Din' Products. 1930s & 1950s., company name dissolved July 1986.  While most of their production was of copperware, this is the underside of a miniature candelabrum where the base is a brass-plated zinc diecasting.  
   
Mora, Sweden.  Mora is near to the Falun copper mined there since the 8th century. Swedish Copperware  
   
 
 S. Mordan & Co., London  The scale and weight making business was founded by Samuel Mordan at 22 Castle Street, London EC c1820 and later moved to City Road.  This mark on the beam of brass letter scales.  
   
moe  
 L Moe, Trondheim, Norway, mark on the handle of a copper kettle.  
   
morewood  
Morewood & Co.  Woodford Iron Works, Soho, Birmingham who described themselves as iron and metal manufacturers. They made castings in  brass such as finger plates, trivets and ashtrays.  This  mark is on a cast brass trivet.   
   
Morton & Crowder   31&33 St George’s Place (K1900), then 208-232, Brearly Street, Birmingham, buttons, imitation jewellery studs, cuff links.  - see: Buttonmakers Birmingham  
   
Mosda - Maurice Davis and Heaps, Birmingham, now Mosda Lighters.   
   
moss  
Oliver Moss.  This label is under a tray that looks handworked in the Newlyn style.  
   
 
Mottahedeh & Co., Inc., 4 Corporate Dr., Cranbury, NJ 08512 Mottahedeh & Co., Inc. 225 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010.  Makers of reproductions.  This was found under a tea caddy.  
   
mueller  
Mueller Brass Co, Port Huron, Michigan. formed in 1917 as Mueller Metals Company the company specialises in tube and fittings.  This label is on a promotional paperweight.  
   
mundu  
 Mundu, Indian tea company.  Who made their brass tea bowls in Germany?  
   
muntz  
Muntz Metal Co., Elliot Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, started c1829 as G F (George Frederick) Muntz of Water Street, Birmingham, then (from 1842) French Walls Works, Alma Street, Smethwick, Staffordshire. Much more on Muntz Metal Co page.  
   
 Musterschutz  Another term for protection of registered designs used from late 19th to early 20th centuries.  It is seen on both cast and wrought brassware but occurs most often under ceramic steins and some plaques. German Copper  
   
Myatt, W. J.  
   
MystoW T French and Son, (William Thomas French), St Mary Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, makers of garden sprays, etc.  
   
   
   
   

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