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A.M.
Air Ministry mark found on items made for Air Force equipment. |
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AM ? mark on
window latch. |
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A M S (& Sons?)
unknown maker's mark on a cast trivet. Information
welcome. |
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NM – unknown mark on copper chamberstick, more information welcome. |
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Manco Plate
Mark found under handles of pressed copper sheet stands for teapots and kettles.
The copper is hard rolled and sometimes silver plated. The registration number 760134 is often found on the opposite
handle.
Manchester Coppersmiths, Garland Works, Bennett
Street, Manchester. The company is now owned by Kingspan
Group
and a new website is in preparation. (Feb 2011). |
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Manganese Bronze Co,
Hadleigh Road, Ipswich, formerly also Delta (Manganese Bronze) Ltd and Cerro
(Manganese Bronze) Ltd, good quality brasses and bronzes as extruded and
drawn rods, bars and forgings as well as castings, now part of Bolton
Aerospace. |
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Maurice Davis and
Heaps, Birmingham, now Mosda, ‘Squire’ padlocks. Lighters |
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MB
unknown mark
in shield on paper knife - information welcome. |
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MC unknown mark on candlestick and a well detailed cast pen tray.
Information welcome.
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M & D, 30,
Greene Street, New York copper cooking pan. Details welcome. (Thanks
for pic. to John Mason of Lexington, Ky.)
Elie Moneuse & Louis Francois Duparquet were coppersmiths and
range and broiler manufacturers in business in New York City at 30 and 28-30
Greene Street from the mid 1860's into the 1870's. They had a number of U S
Patents both together and separately. (Thanks to Pat Dolan) |
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MG monogram
mark on hand made Glasgow copper made by Margaret Gilmour. |
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Mappin and
Webb, jewellers with many branches. The firm was founded in
Sheffield by Jonathan Mappin in 1774 and opened their first store in London
in 1849. This mark is found under the lid of a spirit kettle. |
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'Mandarin
Ware' A
J Harrison, 2a, Lozells Street, Birmingham 19. Manufacturing during the
1930s, Trade Mark lapsed 1950.
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Manning
Bowman, Meriden,
Conn. Quality tableware mentioned in several websites.
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Maple
& Co., quality
furnishing store, Tottenham Court Road, London. Most goods sourced
from British makers, this one from John Marston.
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H
N Marshall,
coppersmith, USA. 1920s. More information welcome.
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'J.M.' Found
under copper and brass domestic holloware including 'Guernsey' style jugs,
hot water jugs, coal scuttles, warming plates and other holloware.
They were mostly made during the period 1883-1902. |
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John Marston of Wolverhampton
used these initials. From 1851 he was apprenticed Richard
Perry & Son and then bought the metal japanning business of Daniel Smith
Lester in 1859. |
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In 1883 he took over the coppersmithing part of the business of Fred Walton & Co. who had been mainly
concerned with japanned wares. |
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Marston Wolverhampton |
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In 1902 Marston sold his
copperware business to Orme Evans and decided
to concentrate his efforts on the manufacture of bicycles, motor cycles and
cars under the 'Sunbeam' name. (information courtesy
Andrew Everett). John Marston's full maker's
mark including the 'W' for Wolverhampton. It is sometimes seen on his
metalware but this illustration is taken from 'Sunbeam Cycles 1887-1895' by
John Pinkerton and Derek Roberts, 1982. (courtesy Andrew Everett) |
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Martineau and Smith,
Birmingham, Brass cock founders and general factors, later Martinsmith,
Holloway Head, then Sutton Coldfield. |
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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', found on taps for
beer barrels. |
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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. |
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'P. M.' Made
in New Jersey unknown maker's mark on a well made copper tray and again on
a copper inkwell. |
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W H Mawson
set up Keswick Home Industries after he left KSIA. |
KSIA Keswick |
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May
and Padmore (M
& P), 120,
Leopold St., Birmingham, brassfounders,
door springs and cabinet furniture. |
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William McGeoch
established his company of brass founders in Glasgow in 1832. As the century
unfolded, McGeoch moved into the manufacture of fittings for the then new
and exciting market for electric lighting. By the early 1900s the company
had a substantial, purpose built, head office in Glasgow incorporating a
warehouse and three floors of showrooms. They also established showrooms in
London and Newcastle and a manufacturing plant in Birmingham. |
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The range already
encompassed a wide choice of domestic and marine electrical fittings from
‘artistic’ statuettes holding lamps to watertight navigation lights. Later
catalogues contained further additions to the McGeoch range including marine
switchboards on slate panels with open switches and the main manufacturing
plant in Birmingham featured more prominently. Ack: Mike Caroll. |
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McKechnie Bros, Brass extrusions and forgings,
Aldridge, Birmingham |
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Marks Me-Mz
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Marks N
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