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(C) Vin Callcut 2002-2008  Small extracts can be used with acknowledgements to 'Oldcopper.org website'

 

     
    M & D, 30, Greene Street, New York, copper cooking pan.  Details welcome.  (Photo John Mason).
     
    B D & Co Chicago & New York unknown mark on a saucepan.   (Photo by Guy E Clarke II.)
     
  D & E Co Ltd., unknown mark under a pressed copper ashtray.
     
    Dalarna, Sweden.  Mark on a modern Swedish spun copper sugarbowl.  The town is on the Dalälven River, near the old capital city (Falun) and the Great Copper Mountain (Stora Kopparberg) that has produced copper since around 1080AD. Swedish Copperware
     
    Davey & Co.,  see: Guernsey jugs     Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
     
    Davies and Hill, 56-60, Pritchett Street, Birmingham, 6. Brassfoundry.  Trade Name 'Davill'.    DAVILL
     
    Davis & Mawson, 17 & 20 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, then Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham, brassfounders, oilers.    Photo wanted.
     
     Maurice Davis and Heaps, Birmingham, now Mosda, cigarette lighters.  (Photo courtesy Maurice Kirman.)
     
    Carl Deffner, Esslingen, Germany, decorative copper, brass and plated tableware.  He was born in 1856 and took over management of his father's metalware factory in 1900.  Responsible for many excellent designs during the art nouveau and art deco periods.  The factory closed in  1959.
     
 

  DeHillerin , cookware,  founded 1820. Paris, France. (Photo courtesy Sarah & John Hardcastle)

 

  http://www.e-dehillerin.fr/
     
 

Delta Metal Co, originally at Greenwich, London on the site now occupied by the Millennium Dome and at Dartmouth Street, Birmingham, and elsewhere.  A large group was formed by takeovers of companies such as Enfield Rolling Mills, Earle Bourne & Co.,  Barker and Allen Ltd., Aston Chain & Hook Co. and others.  The Delta Group have now largely closed or sold off their metal making interests.

 

 

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   'Lombard'.

  Derricourt Brassware Ltd., Great Tindale Street, Birmingham 16,

see 'LOMBARD'   Marks L
     
     Derverlea Products Ltd., 44 Princip Street, Aston Cross, Birmingham, (1930s) then 52 Clement Street, Birmingham 1 by 1943.  Made decorative holloware and buttons.
     
  Desmo, Birmingham,

founded in 1922 as Desmo Limited at 31, Stepford St. The works was in Scholefield Street Birmingham 7, which disappeared from the map in 1961 or 62 during the Newtown slum clearance programme of the time. Desmo then moved to Brierley Hill. It made a huge range of motor accessories from wing mirrors to radiator mascots. 

     
  It was owned from 1926 by the H&S Group (=Harris & Sheldon) and was sold by them not so long ago to Paddy Hopkirk limited, now trading as Mont Blanc Industri UK Ltd., Eden Way, Pages Industrial Park, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. LU7 4TZ. (Thanks to Peter Brown for this information)
 

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