Charles Rawling & William Summers makers mark consists of the initials CR over WS in a square lozenge. Their marks have been found on snuff boxes, bottle labels and novelty items. Below are some examples of their silverware including a silver musical automaton and a novelty match holder in the form of a dog.

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Richard Hodd & Son made some exquisite silverware and silver plate, including some rare novelty silver mounted claret jugs, such as the monkey claret jug below. Their mark has been found on other items such as candlesticks and bottle lables.

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Henry Chawner became a Freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company on 7 December 1785 and entered his first mark as a plateworker on 11 November 1786. On 2 March 1789 he married Miss Hore, daughter and heiress of Edward Hore of Esher, Surrey.

Chawner retired to the Manor House, Newton Valance, which, with the surrounding estate, he had purchased in 1810. He is said to have “..converted the old house into domestic offices and added thereto a villa, in the Grecian style. It contains a large collection of paintings and other works of art, amongst which is the Angouleme China vase, mounted in ormolu….the same that was rejected by George IV for whom it was ordered, in consequence of a small fire flaw which came in the burning.” Chawner died there in March 1851. Reference: Bonhams

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Hester Bateman was the most prominent member of the famous Bateman family of silversmiths. She is often referred to as the ‘Queen of English Silversmiths’. In 1732 she married John Bateman, a maker of watch chains. Using the new techniques that became available in her days and well aware of the demands of the expanding silver market, she was instrumental in the establishment of a strong and expanding family business near London. Upon the death of her husband in 1761 she registered her own maker’s mark. Her work is generally characterized by refined shapes, with restrained decorations, often limited to beading on the edges. This characterization fits the 1780 Rimmonim offered for sale here, in which a plain neo-classical form predominates the carefully restricted decoration, largely consisting of beaded lines along the edges. Hester Bateman was also known as one of England’s foremost bright-cut engravers. Upon her retirement in 1790, she handed over the business to her sons, Peter and Jonathan. Other prominent silversmiths of the Bateman family were Hester’s daughter-in-law Ann, her grandson William and her great-grandson William Jr.

Hester Bateman is known to have produced one other important piece of Judaica, being a 1781 Sabbath Lamp (illustrated in M. Clayton’s Collector’s dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America (1971). Reference: Christie’s

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George Wintle was renown as a spoon maker and entered approximately 11 marks over his career starting on the 2nd January 1787 as a plate-worker. The marks were entered up to around 1823. On the 17th February 1813, he was accused of hallmark forgery although he was found not guilty.

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Thomas Hayter was an apprentice of George Smith, eventually  entering their first mark together on 7th January 1792 as plate-workers. Their mark consists of GS over TH in a square lozenge.

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George Smith II was apprenticed to John Eaton in 1753. He registered his first mark as a small-worker on 21st November 1767. His mark has been found on many different items of silverware including sauceboats, tureens and sugar tongs.

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George Nathan & Ridley Hayes were Birmingham silversmiths who made reproduction pieces including copies of archaeological discoveries, from Mycenae and Assyria in particular. They entered a variety of makers’ marks between 1888 and 1900 (Crisp Jones, pp. 339 and 359). Reference: The British Museum. Their mark has also been found on Chester silver and London silver.

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George Nangle was an Irish silversmith who is renown for his silver fish slices. They often have figures of fish in them. There are also records of a George Nangle whose silver is assayed in London. It is not certain whether they are the same person or not, so below are examples of both.

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David Landsborough Fullerton joined the partnership of Josiah Williams & Co in 1883, a year after George Maudsley Jackson. The mark GJ over DF was used.

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