Silver Makers' Marks - Chester Assay Office (I)

IA IC IE IF IG IH IJ IL IM IR IS IW

IA

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Adamson 1794 Watch case Watch case maker & silversmith, North Street, Liverpool; (from 1790) Johnson Street, Liverpool




IC

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Israel Cohen & Son 1891
(registered c1890)
Watch case Manufacturing jewellers, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham and Vyse Street, Birmingham

A similar mark with stop instead of pellet registered Jan 1894.





IE

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments

(Mark has a cross-shaped pellet)
John Ellison 1801 Creamer Watchcase maker, gold & silversmith, Crosshall Street, Liverpool

The creamer on which this mark was seen had a watchcase hallmark (4 marks in cross formation without duty mark)

John Ellison & Co (probably) 1838 Watch case Watchcase makers, gold & silversmith, Crosshall Street, Liverpool




IF

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Israel Freeman & Son Ltd (registered Nov 1927) Hatton Garden, London
Isabel Florence Hooper 1936
(registered Jun 1937)
Box Allerton Drive, Liverpool




IG

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Ivor Gordon Ltd (registered Dec 1952) Manufacturing jewellers & goldsmiths, Hatton Garden, London EC1




IH

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Harris 1873..1883
(registered Jun 1866)
Watch case Case maker, York Street, Coventry; later (1886) Hertford Place, Coventry

Note: may be 2 different watchcase makers of the same name

John Hammon 1886..1903
(registered Jan 1869)
Watch case Case maker, York Street, Coventry
I Harris & Son 1916
(registered Apr 1907)
Imported purse Lewis Harris, Isaac Harris & Alfred Solomon trading as I Harris & Son, manufacturing jewellers, Bold Street, Liverpool
Joseph Harris Elliot 1858..1859
(registered c1852)
Watch case Case maker, Skinner Street, London (1852); Butts, Coventry (1854)




IJ

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Isaac Jabez Theo Newsome 1886..1919
(registered Jul 1884)
Watch case Watch manufacturer, The Butts, Coventry
1884
(registered Nov 1884)




IL

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Isadore Leapman 1899..1906
(registered Feb 1899)
Dish, spoon Victoria Street, London
John & Thomas Lowe 1840 Spoon Mark in use from c1839

Bridge Street Row, Chester





IM

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
I M Hutchfield 1920
(registered Mar 1920)
Box Harford Works, Harford Street, Birmingham
Spink & Son (John Marshall Spink) 1899..1900
(registered Nov 1895)
Buckle, spoon Piccadilly & Gracechurch Street, London




IO

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments

(image courtesy of Keith Saville)
John Ollivant 1786 Spoon Manchester




IR

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
John Richards 1859 Watch case Case maker, Liverpool
John Richards (probably) 1864..1866 Watch case Case maker, Liverpool

(Chester Assay Office Register shows several of Richards's marks, but the only incuse one has a stop between I and R although it is in sans-serif font)

Israel Rosenthal & Co (registered Aug 1900) Regent Place, Birmingham
I R C (unidentified) 1891
(registered c1890)
Watch case Maker would have been recorded in the now missing register




IS

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments

(image courtesy of www.dartsilverltd.co.uk)
Isaac Summers 1897
(registered Feb 1898)
Salt Wholesale jeweller, Frederick Street, Birmingham
Isaac Silverston & Co (registered c1886) Summerhill Terrace, Birmingham

Other similar marks registered 1880 to 1906

I S Greenberg & Co (Israel Sigmund Greenberg) (registered Oct 1882) Frederick Street, Birmingham; subsequently Great Hampton Street, Birmingham




IW

Mark Maker Dates seen Seen on Comments
Joseph Walley c1785 Spoon Water Street, Liverpool
John Widdowson 1824 Watch case Case maker, Edmund Street, Liverpool
Illinois Watch Case Co Ltd 1914
(registered Mar 1915)
Gold & silver watchcase makers, Holborn Viaduct, London EC & Elgin, Illinois, USA

(image courtesy of Matt King)
John Wyke & Thomas Green 1777 Watch case Watch & watchcase manufacturers, Wykes Court, Dale Street, Liverpool