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	A&H Metal AB Trademark, unknown mark, possibly Swedish, on a cooking pot similar to one in Fort Folle, Avoine Historical Fur Trade Museum. (Thanks to Laurie Southerton).
		Swedish Copperware
	Acme™ A trade name used by many firms. For whistles it was used as 'Acme Thunderer' by James and Joseph Hudson & Co., Birmingham.	Marks Ho-Hz

	Adie Bros, , Atlas Works, Soho, Birmingham & 110 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, silversmiths, (Kelly 1936) and, by 1950, Adie Manufacturing Co., Forster Street, Aston Cross, Birmingham, makers of whistles etc. (K1940).	Photo to follow.

	Adie, Charles Joseph Adie, 156, Warstone Lane, Birmingham, manufacturers of stationers sundries during the 19th Century. They exhibited ink stands and similar brassware at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

	AFC (Co?) on decorative string pot with scissors. More information would be welcome.

	Air Mail – intriguing unknown mark on lidded jug of the late 1930s. The aircraft has an American ‘N’ registration. The mark was one of the first on the website and is still unidentified!

	R G Agnew, High Street, Guernsey, cream jugs.	Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)

	Aladdin	Lamp Makers A-R

	Alderson & Gyde, 183, Worstone Lane & 23 Vittoria Street, Birmingham (1929), 36/7 Hall St., Birmingham 18, brassfounders, good oil and candle lamps pre-1939, then hearth furniture, reproductions, catering supplies. This mark under a 1952 milk jug.

	Alford Company Inc., New York, copper and brassware, this mark under a hammered copper jardinière. More information welcome.

	E A Allen and Co, (Edwin Alfred Allen) 65, 67 and 68 Mott Street, St Georges, Birmingham, stampers and piercers, trays, waiters, cabinet brassware such as handles, hinges and finger plates. Late 19th/early 20th centuries. Not to be confused with Ethan Allen, furnishing designers of USA.	Photo to follow.

	Allen & Freeman – First listed in Kelly Directory 1906 at 37 Baker Street, 1908 had moved to 75/77 Lombard Street, 1932 took over 73 Lombard Street. 1948 now listed as Carpenter & Allen. Possibly using ‘Everest’ brand as monogram AF used on syringes. (Notes from Adrian Lanchester-Hale).

	A M Unknown Hardware manufacturer's mark found on a Victorian house bell system bracket.

	A M & Sons on a cast trivet, unknown maker.

	Anacortes Brass Works Ltd. Anacortes, Wash USA, established 1970 for the manufacture of emblems and buckles.

	Anderson & Sons, Glasgow, mark on a jug, maker's details wanted.

	Ansonia Brass Co.	Ansonia

	Argy Europe. This might refer to a business located in Argy, the name of a village in the Department of Indre, south of the Loire Valley in France. The items seen look recently made so may have been sourced elsewhere such as from Morocco? More details wanted.

	Argyle (on teapot handles) - see Hart & Son.	Marks H

	ARMAC Brassworks, 160 Dollman Street, Birmingham B7 4RS. tel: 0121 359 4821 fax: 0121 359 4698. Current manufacturers of architectural and similar brassware. Some of the dies and tools used have come from manufacturers now out of business including B. Lilley (Craftsman Range), Bentley Brassware, Mainwaring Brass, Morgan & Marlow and Pearson Page Jewsbury (Peerage).	Mark Photo to come.
	www.armac.co.uk www.nxtbook.com/dal/armac/2006catalogue

	Army and Navy Stores, established in Victoria Street, London in 1871. The 'CSL' was added to the mark for 'Co-operative Society Ltd' until 1934. Since 1973 the store has been part of House of Fraser.
	A different mark on the base of a candlestick.

	AFC (Co?) unknown mark on decorative string pot with scissors.

	Art Brass Co, New York. Gotham brand architectural brassware.

	Askew, Nottingham, further information welcome. This mark under one of the tankards for which Nottingham was well known.	Nottingham Copper Tankards

	Aston Brass & Engineering Co. Wood Lane, Bromford, Erdington, Birmingham. (proprietors Valor Co.) Latterly the words ‘& Engineering’ were dropped from their name. Plumbers brassfounders, (1926 -56 Kelly's Directory)

	Aston Chain and Hook Co. Ltd., 29, Whitehouse Street, Aston, Birmingham, (pre 1907) then in the 1930s to a new factory in Bromford Lane, Erdington, Birmingham, to produce extruded and drawn rods, bars and sections (1937 Kelly), also 'A C' brand tubes. They were taken over by Enfield Rolling Mills Ltd (c1955) and with them became part of the Delta Metal Group. Now closed.

	Atlanta Copperware mark found under a copper tankard made as a commemorative for Durban, South Africa. This shows the antelope head outline.	Rhodesian Copper

	Atlas Metal Spinning, formerly located in So. San Francisco Ca. It was started by George Adamis circa 1958 but is no longer in business. (Thanks to Debbie Rutzdk). There is another of the same name in Willoughby, Ohio, USA, still in business.

	S Auld, (maker) Glasgow, probably S Auld & Co of 368, Gallowgate, Glasgow (1896), plumbers brassfounders rather than the larger David Auld & Son Whitewell Foundry, 91, Rochester Street, Glasgow, marine and general brassfoundry . This mark on a whistle.

	W T Avery of Digbeth (c1820), then took over the Soho Manufactury of Boulton & Watt, Birmingham, scale and weight manufacturer. [Avery] Soho Foundry. By W. K. V. Gale, etc. [A history of the Soho Manufactory, afterwards Soho Foundry, Birmingham, occupied successively by Boulton & Watt, and by W. & T. Avery, Ltd. With illustrations]. [Avery?], 1946.	Photo to follow.

	Avon, Avon Coppersmith (c1920s-1940), New York State. This was founded by Arthur Cole, formerly with Roycroft. They produced items with good but simpler workmanship.

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