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(C) Vin Callcut 2002-2012  Small extracts can be used with acknowledgements to 'Oldcopper.org website'. 

Helpful comments are very welcome.

Elkington & Co.
Elpec Brass

 

     
  'E' in a circle with 'Made in England', unknown,  information welcome.
     
    Earle Bourne & Co, Hopper St., Spring Hill, Birmingham, then Heath Street South, Birmingham 18.  Initially started to make tubes, bedstead fittings and drawn wires, late 19th century.  Later, they specialised in semi- finished products including special tubes, strip and sections.  The partnership of John Earl and George Bourne started in 1874 but from 1896 it was run by the Earle family. From 1922 the board was expanded.  They were taken over by Delta Metal Co.  
     
    Eclat  unknown mark on table lighter.
     
    Donald Edward Ltd first listed in Kelly 1928 as Wire Workers in Price St and in 1930 Kelly as garden syringe manufacturers at same address, 1934 Kelly shows then at Little Edward St, Bordesley remaining there until circa 1940 when they moved to 56-60 Hockley Street, Birmingham 18.  (Notes from Adrian Lanchester-Hale.)
     
    Walter Charles Edwards, NRD, coppersmith  (1871-1956) studied at The Guild of Handicraft with C R Ashbee and William Morris at Chipping Campden.  He worked in the moulding shop at Cadbury's factory at Bourneville and was supported to continue his craft.
     
  Work included chargers, chalices, wine jugs, candlesticks altar furnishings and copper inlays for bible chests.  (Photos courtesy Rob Goodchild)
     
    Elkington & Co., founded in Birmingham in the 1840s pioneering electroplate, electrotyping, Sheffield silver and other products.     Elkington & Co.
     
    Ellett Copper & Brass Co., Vancouver, BC Canada domestic coppersmiths until the early 1960s. (Thanks to Rob)
     
    Elpec -  Household and souvenir brassware, 1900s-60s.  Lloyd Pascal & Co, 71-74 Ford Street, Hockley, (Jewellery Quarter) Birmingham, then Cherry Wood Road.  Antique and reproductions.  Trade name lapsed in 1972. Elpec
     
      Emca, maker of whistles, more details needed.  Hudsons? Photo to come
     
    Enfield Rolling Mills   Producers   Sheet Metal Work
     
   Enots  - Benton & Stone  (ENOTS), Bracebridge Street, Birmingham , by 1926 also at Aston Brook Street, art metal workers and makers of gas fittings, garden syringes and sprays and motor accessories. 'Enots' is of course 'Stone' backwards. This photo by Peter Grantham.
     
    Empress Ware, New York Stamping Co., Brooklyn, NY.  On some kettles the mark is simplified with the crown having just 'Empress' above and 'N.Y.S. Co' below.
     
    Taken at an angle to get the right lighting, this shot is taken from the base of a copper tray.
     
    EPNS - Abbreviation for electro-plated nickel silver  
     
    Orme Evans Marks O P
     
  Allen Everitt & Sons, Kingston Metal Works, Cambridge St (Wrightson & Webb 1835), then Adderly Street (Kelly 1867), manufacturers of sheets, strip and tubes in copper and brass. (Kelly 1867) (Not in 1816 nor 1903).  This mark found under the drip tray of a candlestick made in India from sheet made in Birmingham. (Photo courtesy Melinda Evans)
     
 

  Essex Brass, Detroit, Michigan, founded 1901, still making brass fittings.

 

 

  essex brass
    Essor Manufacturing.,  24-28 Bishop St.,Birmingham 5, (in 1946) Brassfounders and Engineers  founded 1924 from the firms of Henry Ellaway, George Hopkins & Co. and F A Harrison Ltd.. Buttonmakers Birmingham
     
  'ETAS'  Enoch Tonks & Sons Ltd., Temple Works, Temple Bar, Willenhall, Black Country, West Midlands.  They made locks under the 'ETAS' Trade Mark especially coin operated locks for public conveniences. Marks T
     
   Ettingshall, mark on cast brass trivet.  Probably from Thomas Holcroft & Sons Ltd Ettingshall foundry in Wolverhampton, founded c1830, closed 1969.
 

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/holcroft/holcroft.htm

    Eustace Brothers - see   J & F Poole Hayle Copper
     
  Evans & Matthews, 80, Bull St., Birmingham.  This mark under a stylish copper three-footed bowl.
     
    Evered & Co., Surrey Works Lewisham Road, Smethwick.  Trademark shield with RE&S, E&C underneath.  Manufacturers of chandeliers, brackets, hall lamps, gas lamps, gas fittings of every type, brass bedsteads, electroliers, solid and brass cased steel tubes, window and curtain fittings.

Richard Evered started the business in 1809 in Charles Street, near Drury Lane in London.  A branch manufactory was established in Lambeth to make brass-cased steel tubes for curtain rails and similar applications.  In 1860 the firm moved to Birmingham to be in the centre of the brassmaking industry, setting up in Bartholomew Street, Digbeth.  In 1866 they made their final move to the Surrey Works in Smethwick.  There was room for expansion on this site and further buildings were added to make bedstead, cots and more products.

     
   EVW Wilkes, Edward Villers, 12, Lower Priory, near Colmore Circus, Birmingham,   See E V Wilkes
     
    Ewart & Son, Ltd., 346-350, Euston Road, London NW. and 25a Paradise Street, Birmingham (1926), manufacturers of copper water heaters, ventilators and similar products from Victorian times until the 1960s.   Photo to come
 

http://www.ewart.org/Master.htm?http://www.ewart.org/Miscellaneous/EwartAndSon.htm

     
  Extruded Metals Co, 160 Dartmouth Street,  Kelly 1936.  Later Delta Extruded Metals.  
     
  'Ezeglide', Trade Name registered for a brand of curtain rail section made from brass.  (Sample courtesy Alex Marrack)
     
 

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