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

McKechnie Bros
Manning Bowman
May & Padmore

 

     
    A.M.  Air Ministry mark found on items made for Air Force equipment.  
     
     AM ? mark on window latch.
     
    A M S (& Sons?) unknown maker's mark on a cast trivetInformation welcome.
     
     NM – unknown mark on copper chamberstick, more information welcome. Marks N
     
    Maurice Davis and Heaps, Birmingham, now Mosda, ‘Squire’ padlocks. Lighters  Marks D
     
    MB unknown mark in shield on paper knife  - information welcome.
     
 

  MC unknown mark on candlestick and a well detailed cast pen tray.  Information welcome.

     
  M & D, 30, Greene Street, New York copper cooking pan.  Details welcome.  (Thanks for pic. to John Mason of Lexington, Ky.)
     
   MG monogram mark on hand made Glasgow copper made by Margaret Gilmour. Marks G
     
 

'Mandarin Ware' A J Harrison, 2a, Lozells Street, Birmingham 19.  Manufacturing during the 1930s, Trade Mark lapsed 1950.

     
 

Manning Bowman, Meriden, Conn.  Quality tableware mentioned in several websites.

Manning Bowman
     
 

 Maple & Co., quality furnishing store, Tottenham Court Road, London.  Most goods sourced from British makers, this one from John Marston.

     
 

 H N Marshall, coppersmith, USA. 1920s.  More information welcome.

     
    'J.M.'  Found under copper and brass domestic holloware including 'Guernsey' style jugs, hot water jugs, coal scuttles, warming plates and other holloware. These initials were used by John Marston of Wolverhampton, owner of a cycle shop who went on to make Sunbeam motorcycles. (information courtesy Andrew Everett). 
     
  He took over the coppersmithing part of the business of Fred Walton & Co. who had been mainly concerned with japanned wares until 1883.
  Marston Wolverhampton  
  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)
     
 

 Martins, Guernsey, most common marked cream jugs.

Illustrations Guernsey & Jersey Jugs (Creamers)
     
    Harry Mason, Birmingham, cockmakers,  Trade Mark 'Veribest', found on taps for beer barrels.
   
    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. Photo to come.
     
   'P. M.' Made in New Jersey unknown maker's mark on a well made copper tray and again on a copper inkwell. 
     
    W H Mawson set up Keswick Home Industries  after he left KSIA. KSIA Keswick
     
  May and Padmore (M & P), 120, Leopold St., Birmingham, brassfounders, door springs and cabinet furniture.   May & Padmore
     
  McKechnie Bros, Brass extrusions and forgings, Aldridge, Birmingham McKechnie Brothers
 

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