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Silver Makers' Marks - Edinburgh Assay Office (J)

JA JB JC JD JE JF JG JH JI JJ JK JL JM JN JO JP JQ JR JS JT JU JV JW JX JX JZ

JN

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
J N 1807 Spoon
J N 1808..1809 Spoon
J N 1807..1815 Spoon
James Newlands 1817..1818 Flatware Newlands used the Glasgow assay office after its reopening in 1819. He was in partnership with Philip Grierson 1810-1816.
James Nasmyth 1833..1839 Box, card case Box maker
James Nasmyth & Co 1840..1853 Card case, medal, tongs
James Ness & Son 1965..1969 Cup, dish, goblet, napkin ring, pepper mill, quaich, salver Queensferry Street, Edinburgh
1977..1990
1992..1995
1994..2010
2000
John Crichton 1874..1880 Mustard, salt, tea service

(image courtesy of www.dartsilverltd.co.uk) 		John Nicholas Emery (registered Mar 1947) Schoolmaster & silversmith, Glenalmond, Perth, Scotland
James Newlands & Philip Grierson 1809 Flatware

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JO

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
J O 1798 Spoon "Unidentified" by Edinburgh Incorporation of Goldsmiths
James Orr 1801..1805 Spoon Greenock
J O'Raily 1835 Spoon Dumfries

Mentioned in Edinburgh records 1835-1837

John Oliver Whitehead 1991
(registered May 1980) 		Spoon

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JP

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments

(image courtesy of Waddingtons, Toronto) 		J P 1849 Fork Both marks seen on the same set of forks

(image courtesy of Waddingtons, Toronto) 		1856
John Pinches Ltd 1977
(registered May 1971) 		Goblet Registered as John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd, London SW4
John Prince 1983
(registered Oct 1972) 		Menu holder, spoon, straining ladle Trading as Creetown Gold & Silversmithing Workshops Ltd
1988..1997
(registered Jan 1986)

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JR

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
J R 1814 Spoon
J R 1892..1899 Brooch, thistle-shaped tot cup (which also has a JR&S mark) Possibly James Rettie & Son of Aberdeen

(image courtesy of Joanie's House of Treasures) 		J R & S 1872..1888 Luggie, quaich
J R & S 1880..1881 Salt, teapot
J R & S 1882..1887 Spoon
J R & S 1893..1899 Buckle, thistle-shaped tot cup (which also has a JR mark), vase

(image courtesy of www.dartsilverltd.co.uk) 		Laings Ltd 1968
(registered Sep 1964) 		Quaich Renfield Street, Glasgow

Company originally known as J R & W Laing with partners (1850) James Rankine Laing & William Laing

John Robert Drever 1981
(registered Jul 1980) 		Stirrup cup Manufacturing jeweller, Edinburgh

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JS

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
J S 1818..1819 Flatware Seen with Marshall & Sons' mark (1818, 1819)
John Sutter 1828..1829 Spoon Recorded at Edinburgh Assay Office 1826-1829; later moved to Liverpool and sent items to Newcastle and Chester for assay

(image courtesy of David Mercer) 		J S 1848 Spoon "Unidentified" by Edinburgh Incorporation of Goldsmiths
Jack Spencer (Silversmith) Ltd 1971..1977 Cuff links, pendant Ecclesall Road, Sheffield

(image courtesy of Mark Ashcroft) 		Jackie Stewart 1998 Paperweight / letter opener Item marked "Stewart Grand Prix"
James Swann & Son 1930
(registered c1930) 		Book mark Hylton Street, Birmingham
Janet Stevenson Chapman 1944..c1958
(registered Jun 1943) 		Spoon Port Seton, Midlothian; then Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire
J[ame]s H 1824..1837 Decanter label, spoon Seen with Andrew Wilkie's mark (1824-26, 1837)
John Smith Harris 1977
(registered 1970) 		Jug Carlisle
James Kirkwood 1834, 1852..1866 Brooch, flatware
Joseph Smith Murray 1955
(registered Feb 1956) 		Spoon

(image courtesy of www.dartsilverltd.co.uk) 		J Steel & W Cumming 1819..1820 Fish slice, tongs

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JT

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Joanna Lesley Thomson 1988
(registered Apr 1973) 		Earring Peebles, Scotland

Web site

John Thompson & Sons 1920 Tongs Clerkenwell Road, London
J T Deeley Ltd (registered Jun 1977) Warstone Lane, Birmingham
John Tait Kirkwood 1901 Box, wallet mount

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JU

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Urquhart 1813..1822 Flatware

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JV

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Neil van Bogerijen 1971
(registered Nov 1971) 		Ring Brodick, Isle of Arran

A similar cameo mark registered same date


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JW

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Welsh 1750..1767
(registered 1742) 		Spoon
John Wilkie 1845..1881 Flatware
James Wright 1857..1881 Flatware
John White 1968..1982
(registered Dec 1967) 		Mug, napkin ring, tray Hartlepool, Co Durham and Leyburn, N Yorkshire
Jean Marie Wannop 1982
(registered Aug 1979) 		Pendant Craft jeweller, Helensburgh, Scotland
J W Howden & Co 1813..1822 Decanter label, salver, spoon, teapot Seen with AH (Alexander Henderson) (1813-22), J Hay (1818) & WH (1819-1821)
J W Kirwan & Co (John William Kirwan) 1897..1912 Pepperette, quaich, spoon Vyse Street, Birmingham, Frederick Street, Birmingham & Hatton Garden, London

(image courtesy of www.dartsilverltd.co.uk) 		J W over W H 1812 Spoon "Unidentified" by Edinburgh Incorporation of Goldsmiths

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JZ

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Zeigler (1811..1817)
John Zeigler (1818)

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