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(C) Vin Callcut 2002-20010  Small extracts can be used with acknowledgements to 'Oldcopper.org website'.  Helpful comments and identifications are very welcome.

 

   
  Pearson Page-Jewsbury - 'Peerage'

- trade mark after 1945

     
   John Jewsbury & Co., 71, Broad Street, Birmingham  (pre-1900)  
     
   Pearson-Page, 10-12, Cecil Street, Birmingham (1907), Ilene Works, Sherlock Street, Birmingham, then Pearson Page Jewsbury, then Peerage, manufacturers of reproduction and original copper and brassware during 1910s-1930s.  Production was intended to be good quality period reproductions and was not generally marked. This rare mark is found on some of their designs.
     
   Pearson Page Jewsbury Co Ltd., Soho Works, later Westwood Works, Westwood Road, Witton, Birmingham 6, (not to be confused with Boulton's Soho Manufactory.  Jewsbury was originally founded 1883.   The Company took over Pearson Page designs when they were liquidated in 1933.  This photo from a patent money box supplied by Lorenzo Caira.
     
    Pearson, Page, Newton & Minchew Ltd. Of Ernest Street, Holloway Head, Birmingham, brassfounders.  Several good designs for brass souvenirs were registered during the early 1900s but no examples of a maker's mark have been found.  
     
    Peerage Brass Successor to Pearson Page brand name c1946 onwards and generally used for original designs but also on reproductions.  Trade Mark registered to Pearson Page Jewsbury, Dulverton Road, Witton, Birmingham 6.   Peerage Brass were later at Sharston Road, Wythenshaw, Manchester M22 4TH. but are possibly not trading.  Trade mark may have lapsed in 1991.
     
  This 'Peerage' mark has 'Made in Ireland' added underneath.  It is found on souvenirs with emblems attached that are designed for the Irish market.
     
    The name 'Peerage' is usually found on new designs.  These raised letters are on a die-cast candlestick.  The 'Peerage' name was first used during the recovery period after the end of the Second World War.
     
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