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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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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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Clews, James Clews, 195, Aston Road, Birmingham,
kettles, candlesticks, bells, etc.
Clews, F & H, was
taken over by Pearson Page Jewsbury in the 1930s |
Marks C
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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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Marks Co-Cz
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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
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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.
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| 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
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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. |
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William Dowler
& Sons.
Graham St. Works, Birmingham 1 |
Buttonmakers Birmingham |
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Down Bros,
21 & 23 Thomas
Street, SE1 and other addresses in London Surgical instruments.
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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.
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Marks Di-Dz
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Dryad Lester,
quality copperware, mainly bowls. More information needed.
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Duparguet 110, W 22nd Street, New York. Mark on
copper cooking pan. |
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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
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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.
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Elkington & Co.
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| http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/prints/greatexhib/bytype/display00084.html |
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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.
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Elpec
Brass
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Elvicta Elliott-Lucas, Church Street, Oldbury ?? near Birmingham, small
tools including levels and gauges. |
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Emca, maker of whistles, more details needed |
Photo to come |
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Empress Ware,
New York Stamping Co., Brooklyn, NY.
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Marks
E
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| Enots - see Benton & Stone. |
Marks B |
| 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.
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Marks
E
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Essex Brass,
Detroit, Mich, founded 1901, still making brass fittings.
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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 |
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Ettingshall,
mark on cast brass trivet. Probably
from Thomas Holcroft & Sons Ltd., Ettingshall foundry in Wolverhampton,
founded c1830, closed 1969.
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Marks
E
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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
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| 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
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Marks
E
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| Ewart
and Son Ltd.,
25a Paradise Street, Birmingham, geysers and water heaters –
water heaters
|
Marks
E
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'Ezeglide', Trade Name registered for a brand of
curtain rail section made from brass. |
Marks
E
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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 (Co?) on decorative string pot with
scissors. |
