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Marks M
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Illustrations
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| A.M.
Air Ministry mark found on items made for Air Force equipment. |
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| AM ?
maker's mark on
window latch, unknown. |
Marks
M |
| A M
S (& Sons)
unknown maker's mark on a cast trivet |
Marks
M |
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MB
unknown
mark in shield on paper knife
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Marks
M
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| MC
unknown mark on candlestick |
Marks
M |
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MG monogram of Margaret Gilmour, Glasgow
School. |
Marks G |
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Manco Plate - see Manchester Coppersmiths |
Marks
M
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'Mandarin
Ware' A J Harrison, 2a
Lozells Street, Birmingham 19. Trade Mark lapsed 1950.
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Marks
M
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| Manganese Bronze Co,
Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, formerly also Delta (Manganese Bronze) Ltd and Cerro
(Manganese Bronze) Ltd, |
Marks
M
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Manning
Bowman, Meriden, Connecticut.
Quality tableware mentioned in several websites.
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Marks
M
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Maple
& Co., furnishing store, Tottenham Court Road, London
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Marks
M
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H
N Marshall, coppersmith, USA
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Marks
M
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'J.M.' Found under copper and brass
domestic holloware. Initials used by John Marston of Wolverhampton. |
Marks
M
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Martins,
Guernsey, most common marked cream jugs.
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Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
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Harry Mason, Birmingham, cockmakers, Trade mark 'Veribest',
more information welcome. |
Marks
M
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| Mason and Lawley, Birmingham, cockmakers listed from 1800, then continuing as Samuel Mason Ltd., to become specialists in bar equipment and being taken over by Gaskell and Chambers c1925. The brand name was retained. |
Mason |
| 'P.
M.' Made in New Jersey on a well made copper tray. Information
welcome. |
Marks
M
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MC
unknown mark on candlestick
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Marks
M
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McKechnie
Bros.. brass rod and
stampings.
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McKechnie
Bros
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RM
Manufacturing & Engineering Co. Ltd
On the 18th May 1950 RM Manufacturing & Engineering Co Ltd were
taken over by Samuel Heath & Sons. Heaths incorporated the RM brand
into their range of products. |
Marks He-Hn |
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John Marston of Wolverhampton used the initials
'JM' |
Marks
M
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May
and Padmore (M & P)
120, Leopold St., Birmingham, brassfounders, door springs and cabinet
furniture.
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Marks
M
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R.
Mead, Richard Mead worked in Rhodesia, now Zambia. Good quality
rectangular planters and other very decorative copper.
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Rhodesian Copper
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| Mears - mark
on bells made in Whitechapel Bell Foundry. |
Marks W-Z |
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Messenger
& Sons. Birmingham, candelabra, lamps and gas fittings.
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Oil Lamp Makers
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| N.
V. Metawa, Tiel, Holland, name from 'metalware', Trade name
Metad'or for brass but also made pewterware, founded 1923 in the same town
as Daalderop and Kurz. Closed 1982, briefly revived but finally
closed 1985. (information courtesy Aart W. Korstens). |
Marks
Me-Mz |
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Mewco
Metal Products,
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, Copper
holloware.
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Marks
Me-Mz
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| Midland Lighting
Co., 7, Corporation Street, Stanhope St. and Leopold Street, Birmingham manufacture the ‘Lampe Belge’ |
Lamp Makers A-R |
| Edward Miller
Co., Meriden, CT. |
Lamp Makers A-R |
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Minneapolis Handicraft Guild, 10th St &
Marquette Av.S., Minneapolis, started in 1905, it ran until 1918 when it was
incorporated into the University of Minnesota as the Department of Art
Education. |
Marks
Me-Mz |
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Mitchell, Canada, maker's mark under a fire
lighter made from an old 4" shell case. More information will be
welcome. |
Marks
Me-Mz |
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MG
mark on a sconce.
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Marks
Me-Mz |
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Moffat's,
makers of patent candlesticks in Birmingham & Scotland,
with their patent ejectors. In the 1835 directory, James Moffatt is at 11, Court, Thomas Street, Birmingham, tinplate worker.
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Marks
Me-Mz |
| Monitor Engineering & Oil Appliances
Ltd., in Stechford, Birmingham, making stoves & blowlamps. They were later owned by Parkinson, then successively Pakinson Cowan and Thorn EMI before being sold to the Swedish Electrolux in 1987 and subsequently closed. |
Marks
Me-Mz |
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Monkeys, Wise Brass |
Three Wise Monkeys |
| Moorgate (Birmingham) Ltd., 84-5 Ryland Road, Birmingham, maker of 'Gunga
Din' Products. 1950s., company name dissolved 7/86 |
Marks
Me-Mz Photo
to come. |
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Mora , Sweden. Mora is near to the Falun copper mined
there since the 8th century. |
Swedish
Copperware |
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L Moe, Trondheim, Norway, mark on the handle of a
copper kettle. |
Marks
Me-Mz
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Morewood
& Co. Edmund
St., Birmingham, in hands of successors by 1904, steel fabricators,
cast
brass trivet
and ashtray.
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Marks
Me-Mz
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| Morton & Crowder
- see - |
Button Makers, Medallists and Mints |
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Mottahedeh & Co., Inc., 4 Corporate Dr., Cranbury, NJ
08512 Mottahedeh & Co., Inc. 225 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010. |
Marks
Me-Mz
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Mueller Brass Co, Port Huron, Michigan. |
Marks
Me-Mz
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Mundu,
Indian tea company. Who
made their brass tea bowls in Germany?
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Marks
Me-Mz
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Muntz
Metal Co.,
Elliot Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham. |
Marks
Me-Mz
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Mysto,
W T French and Son, Birmingham, makers of garden sprays, etc.
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Photo
to come
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Nader Factory, Tehran, Iran, coppersmiths. |
Marks
N
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F Narborough & Sons, 42, Lombard St.,
sticks, canes and electroplating. |
Marks
N
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Nekrassoff,
designer, USA
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Marks
N
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‘Neptune’
mark – see J. Sankey & Sons
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Joseph
Sankey & Son. (JS&S)
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| Nesco, USA,
manufacturer and retailer of domestic cookware. |
Marks
N |
| Nestor, Birmingham,
trademark of Harry J Pratt & Co Ltd, Nestor Works, Dean Street, Birmingham
5. |
Marks
N
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Newey Bros. Limited, Birmingham. |
Buttonmakers Birmingham |
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Newlyn
Copper Founded
in 1890 as the Newlyn Industrial Class by John D McKenzie.
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Newlyn
Copper
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W. Newman & Sons, Birmingham, brassfounders, later
amalgamated with William Tonks & Co Ltd to form Newman Tonks. |
William Tonks & Sons (WT&S) |
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Newton Jones &
Willis,
later Jones & Willis. |
Birmingham Guild |
| Newton Shakespeare & Co.
Ltd., Garrison Street and Saltley Street, Birmingham from c1895 onwards.
'Garrison' Trade Mark. Iron plate work, tin-plate workers,
japanners, odd work and novelties. Mark found on copper campaign and
picnic kettles. |
Marks
N
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NIBCO Northern Indiana Brass Co., Elkhart,
Indiana. |
Marks
N
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NM
– unknown mark on copper chamberstick, more information welcome.
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Marks
N
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| NMK,
unidentified German mark. |
Marks
N
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Norseman Reproductions.
Robert Normansell Ltd, Exeter Street, Birmingham 1 |
Marks
N
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| 'Northland'
tree logo. This mark was put on copper crafts hand made at Northland College
in Ashland, Wisconsin. |
Marks
N |
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Falick Novick, coppersmith, Chicago from 1907. He also
worked at the Kalo Shop as a metal smith. |
Marks
N |
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Nottingham
Electroplating Co,
Sherwood St, Nottingham , under a good copper tankard
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Marks
N
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Olbury Hand made copper and brass trays a speciality. More information
welcome.
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Marks
O P
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Olney & Newbury Ltd Art Metal, Icklford, Herts. |
Marks
O P
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| Onogonda Metal Shops
OMS monogram mark, see Benedict page. |
Benedict |
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Oregon Brass Works, 1127, S. E. 10th Ave,
Portland, Oregon, began foundry operations about 1930 making brass and
aluminium castings until November 1998.
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Marks
O P
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Orme Evans & Co (O & E Co)
Elgin Works, Great Brickkiln Street, Wolverhampton. This mark
is underneath an art deco candlestick. They were founded in 1864 and took over Henry Fearncombe in 1902.
They were showing no copper or brassware in their 1927 catalogue and
seem to have ceased trading altogether in 1960, see the Wolverhampton History
Society website:
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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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W. Ottway & Sons, London, mark on a modern theodolite. |
Marks
O P
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Ottone
Italian word for 'Brass'
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Photo
to come.
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William Overton of Walsall, Black Country, |
Marks O P |
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TP & S,
as yet unknown mark on late Victorian door knocker. |
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Pallisers, Wolverhampton, barfitters. |
Marks O P |
| Parker-Hale,
Birmingham. Founded in 1880s, became Parker-Hale in 1936, and subsequently P-H Arms Co. in 1940 |
Marks O P |
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Parker Winder & Achurch, Beehive Foundry,
Brewery Street, Birmingham, B41. |
Marks O P |
| Josiah Parkes & Sons
Ltd., Union Street, Willenhall, founded c1840, taken over by Chubb & Son plc in 1965.
Union Locks |
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| S Parkes & Sons,
Birmingham, rolled gold goods. |
SP
& S |
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Parkinson and W & B. Cowan, Birmingham, manufacturers
mark on a spirit burner made in 1918. They still manufacture cookers
in the Tricity Bendix Group. |
Marks O P |
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A S Paul, Salcombe, Devon, coppersmith. |
Marks O P |
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Paye
& Baker, makers of decorative cutlery, etc.
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Photo
to come.
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| J R Pearson, 63-69 Burlington Street, Aston and 34 Porchester Street B19 2JY. Architectural metalware manufacturers established 1878. TM is an 8-point star
enclosing a JRP monogram, now also at 27, John Adam Street, Adelphi, WC2N 6HX. |
Marks O P |
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J
Pearson, John Pearson, Newlyn.
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Newlyn
Copper
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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 not generally marked and was intended to be
good quality period reproductions.
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Peerage
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| Pearson Page Jewsbury Co Ltd.,
Soho Works, Westwood Road, Witton, Birmingham 6, (not to be confused with
Boulton's Soho Manufactory. Jewsbury was originally founded 1883
as a family firm
and there were still five members of the family as directors in 1950.
Now at Sharston Road,
Wythenshaw, Manchester M22 4TH. but possibly not trading.
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Peerage
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Pearson, Page, Newton & Minchew Ltd. Of Ernest Street,
Holloway Head, Birmingham, brassfounders. |
Peerage
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Peerage
Brass. New trademark brand name registered in 1945 but the company continued as
Pearson Page Jewsbury Co., Ltd.
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Peerage
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| Peerless
Stampings, Priory Road, Birmingham. |
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J
Pengelly, Joseph, Newlyn.
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Newlyn
Copper
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| Period Brass
Co., 2, 3 & 60, Graham Street, Birmingham, 1950s, cabinet and
reproduction brassware. |
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B. Perkins & Sons, 123, Bermondsey
Street, London, EC, Tin Plate workers and Japanners. Makers of copper
kettles under the 'Kabyle' registered brand name. |
Marks
O P
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Richard
Perry & Co., copper jugs and tankards, Wolverhampton. Some,
but by no means all, of their products were designed by Christopher
Dresser. The
trade mark
knot itself, without the initials, was also used by others including Thomas Richard, Birmingham
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Marks
O P
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http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/general/perry.htm
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| J. Picard & Co.,
140, Strand, then 117, Regent
Street, London W (K1922). By 1933 they had moved to 6, Virgo St W1 and 10
Hedden St., W1. ‘Coffee merchants and manufacturers of patent French coffee
and tea apparatus and patent coffee roasters’. |
Marks
O P
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John Phillips & Co, Glasgow, More information welcome. |
Marks
O P
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J W Pickavant &
Co
Ltd, Apkoway Works, Bow Street B1, 'Quicko' Brand sheet metal components and motor
accessories including bulb cases 1930’s – 1950s. |
Photo to come |
| J. W. Pole mark
on a cast mirror plate of late Victorian period. More details
welcome. |
Marks
O P
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George Polkey, 126, Pitsford St., Birmingham makers of lamps. |
Marks
O P
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J
& F Pool Ltd, Hayle, Cornwall.
Hand wrought copper in Newlyn tradition but unmarked.
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J
& F Pool Hayle Copper
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http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/index-da-art.htm
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| Powell and Hanmer,
P & H Ltd., Chester Street, Aston Manor,
Birmingham
(1929), 4, Ernest Street, B1 machined components, motor
accessories including carbide/acetylene and electric lamps. |
P
& H |
| PPJ
mark - see Pearson Page Jewsbury |
PPJ
& Co.
Illustrations Peerage
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Pratt & Son, London, mark on a well cast brass
vase. |
Marks
O P
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| E Preston & Sons,
Birmingham., carpenters' tools |
Marks
O P
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| Quikko, J W Pickavant & Co Ltd , 41, Frederick Street, Birmingham brass pressings for home and automotive use. |
'Quicko' |
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AR
(or AP?) unknown mark
on cast brass French pen tray.
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Marks
Q R
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RVP,
unknown mark on tableware dish , c1900, together with an early version of
the swastika sign.
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Marks
Q R
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Purchase Tax. This was a sales tax levied first
on the 19th October 1940 on all British goods with a few exceptions such as
food, 'Utility' furniture and trade tools. Price lists produced thereafter
frequently mentioned that purchase tax was, or was not, included. The
government's idea was to discourage luxury goods during wartime and post-war
shortages. |
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Purely British 'PB' mark either side of a figure
reminiscent of Britannia standing with trident. Information welcome. |
Unknown Marks O-Z |
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J
Quénault, Tin Smith, Jersey, cream jugs.
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Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
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| J Rabone, Instrument maker based in
Hockley, Birmingham near the Jewellery Quarter. see 'The First 200 years: a short history of Rabone Chesterman Limited', Douglas J. Hallam.
In 1984 they merged with Chesterman of Sheffield to form Rabone Chesterman, now part of
Dial Engineering with Stanley Tools and other brands. |
Rabone Chesterman |
| Rainsford &
Lynes, 113, Ellis St., Holloway Head, Birmingham, hot stampings. |
Photo
to come |
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John Van Range Co Cincinnati, Ohio, Copper cookware. |
Marks
Q R
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J F
Ratcliffe (Metals) Ltd, New Summer St., Birmingham B19, Ratcliffs
(Great Bridge) Ltd., Tipton, Staffordshire,
John
Ratcliffe, St Paul’s Square, Birmingham (K1829), Joseph Ratcliffe
(K1900).
I & C Ratcliff,
Birmingham. |
Marks
Q R
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| Regal Buttons, Grosvenor Road, Birmingham |
Button Makers, Medallists and Mints |
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Rein Kupfer German term confirming that the item
is made from genuine copper. |
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Retinning Copper Cookware |
Marks
Q R
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Revere
Copper, Rome, NY. Founded 1801, copper producers and manufacturers of
cookware.
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Marks
Q R
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http://www.reverecopper.com/
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Rexware, Made in England, over initials 'J & Co.'
Stamp under two copper pots. Information will be welcome. |
Marks
Q R
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Rhodesian
Copper Products (see also Richard Mead)
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Rhodesian Copper
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Riley Osborn Mfg. Co., Newark, New Jersey, mark
under a brass gilded cup. |
Marks
Q R
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| Rippingills Albion Lamp
Co., Ltd., Aston Road North, Birmingham, makers of lamps for domestic and road transport use. Some work contracted to G. Polkley Ltd. Albion™ |
Lamp Makers A-R |
| The
Rochester Lamp Company |
Lamp Makers A-R |
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W.
Rogers, William Rogers was a silversmith and art metalworker from c1836.
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Photo
to come
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http://www.silversmithing.com/1forum.htm
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| Rochester
Stamping Co., Rochester, New York was formed from Rochester Stamping
Works in 1900. |
Marks
Q R
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Rosebery Metal Works Co., address probably Rosebery
Street, Wolverhampton. Makers of copper jugs and cups |
Marks
Q R
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Royal
Rochester (Robeson Rochester), founded 1853-1888, later specialised in
electric coffee percolators.
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Marks
Q R
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Royal
Sable, Rhodesia, named after a large antelope, the national emblem.
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Roycroft,
Marks. Other marks are in the literature.
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Roycroft
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http://www.roycroftcopper.com/history.htm |
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De
La Rue, Guernsey, cream jugs.
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Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
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Ruskin’s
Ceramic
Cabochons
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Ruskin
Pottery Cabochons
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| John Russell &
Co., Brookfields, St Paul’s Sq., Birmingham, chandelier and brass works, gas fittings. |
Anchor trademark (upright) |
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Russian
marks, typified by the alphabet.
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Marks
Q R
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Marks S-Z |
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Marks H-L |
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