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

     
     'G' over a hand , - unknown mark.  This one on modern hand made wall sconce.    Photo by Clive Lloyd.

 

     
  G.W.S & S  mark on a picnic kettles made for a retailer in Regent St., London.

Marks S  

     
     
   

 

     Percy Gabriel & Co, founded as a brass foundry in 1884 at 4 & 5 AB Row, Birmingham, making brass components including oilers.  A modern replacement factory on the same site was started 1935, finished in 1940 and blitzed shortly afterwards. They moved to Tyseley in 1996 and now specialise in stainless steels.  

     
    GAD – unknown mark, more information welcome.

  

     
    Garrison, Trademark of Newton, Shakespeare and Company Ltd. Birmingham.  Marks N

     
  Gaskell & Chambers Ltd. Solihull, Birmingham, bar furniture, now IMI Cornelius (UK) Limited., Gaskell & Chambers Division, 23-27 Chartwell Drive, Wigston, Leicester. LE18 2FL  
     
     J R Gaunt & Sons, (prior to 1913 trading for 200 years as Ed Thurkle in Woostone Parade) 33, Clifford St., Aston, Birmingham, buckles, buttons, fittings, clasps

Button Makers

     
    Geschützt, Geschutz,   Geschuetz German mark covering a proprietary copyright, used until 1883.  (Geschützt = 'Protected' in English).  This one is on a candlestick base.

  

     
    Geschützt, in a circular stamp on a screw nutcracker.

     
  Ges. Gesch. (gesetzlich geschützt) used in Austria and Germany to  note copyright protected design.  
     
     James Gibbons Ltd., now James Gibbons Format, Wolverhampton, door furniture founded 1670 by James Gibbons and in the 19th century claimed to be ‘the oldest established lockmaker in Britain’. They then diversified into a wide range of quality architectural ironwork.

  Gibbons                  
 

    Lockmakers' Gazetteer              :    

     
    Frederick Giles & Sons, Ltd., Birmingham, General brassfoundry.

     
 

S Gill & Co., Ltd.  This mark under an ashtray.  (Photo and details to follow)

 
     
  Gittins Craftsmen Ltd., Ocean Chambers, Clifford Street, Lozells, Birmingham, merged with Birmingham School of Handicrafts 1905, merged again in 1919 with Hart, Son, Peard & Co. Ltd. which lasted until the late 1950s.

Birmingham Guild

     
    Glasgow School of Art.  MG mark of   Margaret Gilmour who studied with her sister, Margaret McDonald, at the Glasgow School of Art.  The McDonald Sisters opened The Gilmour Studios and made much metalware in the Glasgow style.  (Thanks to Liz McKelvie.).  This mark is on a copper sconce.  Most Glasgow copper is unmarked.

 

http://www.artscrafts.org.uk/branches/glasgow.html

     
    Glencroft  Copper, with its mark of the Big G and little candle, was started in South Buffalo, NY in 1948, moved to Clarence in 1954 and is now based in Tonawanda NY.  It was started by Glen Reece who had previously been with the Roycroft campus.  The name is now owned by his grandson, Bill Reece.  The shop is now run as an antique store.   (Thanks to Bill Reece).

     
    Gomm Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 56 Hockley Hill, Birmingham B 18, then 16, Sutton St., Aston Birmingham 6.  Weba™, Webaware™,   Mid 20th century production, Trade Mark lapsed 1950.

     
  Gorham Co. Founded by Jabez Gorham in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1831, the Gorham Silverware Company is still in business today in Smithfield, Rhode Island, making good silverware and silverplate.  This mark is on a copper tray that may once have been silver plated but looks good just the way it is.

   

Gorham Date Marks

     
  R. Greenlees & Co. Ltd., 30, 32, 35 & 37 East Howard Street, Glasgow (1896) 42, Great Clyde Street, Glasgow, (1927) works in Norfolk Court, japanners, grinders and polishers, manufacturing ironmongers and hardware merchants.  R. G & Co. mark on a tea caddy with a 1920 registered design number.. 

  Greenlees, Glasgow, manufacturer's mark under a late Victorian trivet. 

     
 

  Gregorian Copper, made in the 1980’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then Lemmon, South Dakota. (Not to be confused with Georgian copper of around the 18th century!)

 

     
 

This 'R' in a circle is made up of individual punch marks.  It was used by 'Gregorian' copper to indicate that the design was registered, not that the item was of Roycroft origin.

     
   The Griffin Foundry, Fireplace and Sanitary Fittings Limited, England.  The full message is cast into the base of a commemorative tankard.

     
  Griffiths & Browett, 68 & 69 Bradford Street, Birmingham, c1867, coppersmiths, iron and tinplate workers. Later they specialised as makers of copper holloware including samovars and food warmers, iron and tinplate workers.  Probably connected with T E Griffiths & Co., also of Birmingham.  Details wanted. 

James Griffiths, 65 ½ Emily St. Birmingham. (Ryland 1903

     
  Grillby Metallfabrik, Grillby, Sweden, makers of holloware including kettles.

Swedish Copperware

     
    Griswold  - Wagner Manufacturing Co of Erie, Pa until 1957 then 440 Fair Ave, Sidney, Ohio.  Mainly cast iron cookware. Name registered 1866, slant font from 1909, block font from 1924, trade mark cancelled April 2001 (Steve Stephens)  
 

http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/faq.html

http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/trademark.html

     
      Guernsey and Jersey Cream Jugs Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
     
       Guests Brass Stamping Co. Selly Oak, Birmingham, hot stamping makers taken over by Birmingham Battery Metal Co.  Photo from under a promotional tray, taken by Patricia Gould.

     
       Gunga Din  - see Moorgate (Birmingham) Ltd. Marks Me-Mz
     
 

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