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doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 04-19-2003 05:21 PM [01-1052] I have acquired this pretty Vesta Case and have it ID'd for silver, 1898, Sheffield England. Now I just need the maker ID'd? It's "WN". Anyone know that one? (The WN was hard to photograph. I apologize for photo quality.) Merci! ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 04-30-2003 03:37 AM Not a clue as to this maker, well - thanks anyway... I'll send for the info from the Sheffield Assay Office and see where that gets us. ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
doobees Posts: 277 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 04-30-2003 08:34 AM Boy, that was quick. I just sent the Email an hour or so ago!!! Here's what the Sheffield Assay Office librarian had to say: quote: From your photograh I am not quite sure which WN mark it is, so I'm attaching scans of the two WN marks which were registered in the 1890s. I suspect that yours is the second (Note from Suzanne: It was!)- William Neale of Birmingham - because Sheffield firms usually made larger items of silver hollow-ware, or cutlery, rather than smaller piece such as your vesta case. I don't know why they registered with Sheffield Assay Office or why they sent your vesta case here rather than Birmingham Assay Office, or London, or Chester, where they were also registered. (From 1855 onwards silversmiths could register with whichever Assay Office they wanted. Before than, they had to use the one nearest to their work-place.) I'm also attaching a brief history of the firm taken from John Culme - The Directory of Gold & Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Traders 838-1924 - Vol I ; Woodbridge, 1987 The other WN - William Needham - made mainly pocket-knives & blades. Best wishes, Jackie Richardson ------------------ Suzanne D IP: Logged
Stephen Posts: 625 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 04-30-2003 08:44 PM An amazing contrast to the reply that Jen received from Reed & Barton cannister - Tea? Tobacco?? last week. IP: Logged

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