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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 11-12-2006 02:26 PM
  
As our regular readers know, I have been working on my little genealogical study of American Silversmiths for quite a while now. I like to think it has been of some assistance and interest to the community of silver lovers. There is still an enormous amount of research yet to do, however, and I would ask for some help with a portion of it. While I have had good luck in finding pictures of the marks of about half the included silversmiths, there are more than 1300 still lacking. I have put together alphabetical lists of those needed, with the names linked to the pages on my site:There are a lot of names here, I know, from the very common to the wholly rare, and I certainly wouldn't expect anyone to plod through it from beginning to end. But if you do give it a glance and see a mark you could post here, I would be grateful. I will, of course, give credit where credit is due. Given the nature of this exercise, I am suspending the usual image restrictions in this thread; pictures up to 550p wide at 300 dpi will be allowed (and encouraged). IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 11-12-2006 04:59 PM
WEV, I hope this produce some good results. What about parallel thread For marks with no known attribution? Just a place to post the unknown attribution's mark images (no discussion). If an image requires discussion, it can have its own thread. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 11-12-2006 05:23 PM
Excellent idea. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 10-16-2008 12:11 AM
As of 1864 Wendell & (Richard H) Roberts. William P Feltman died in 1864. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 10-16-2008 12:14 AM
Not very clear, but maybe it will do until a better one comes along. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 10-21-2008 12:19 AM
If this proves to be a good match for the mark, here's som additional information: 1863 Michigan Directory, Grand Rapids Page 328, Brinsmaid Henry, clocks, watches and jewelry, Monroe. In the 1860 and 1870 U S Federal Census for Grand Rapids, Michigan and in 1880 he is back in New York and widowed.  IP: Logged |
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argentum1 Posts: 602 |
posted 10-21-2008 10:25 AM
 Not the best but I will look for a better mark. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 10-22-2008 05:14 AM
 In 1860 Joseph is listed as a jeweler and watch repairer and also listed in his household was an apprentice Charles Forbes and a journeyman Henry P Cutten. In 1880 Joseph's twenty three year old son Edward H is also a jeweler in Greenfield, Massachusetts and living with Joseph and the rest of the family. IP: Logged |
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argentum1 Posts: 602 |
posted 10-22-2008 08:34 AM
In reference to the Wiltberger mark. I just noticed you already have the mark for the father so you must want the sons' mark. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 10-22-2008 09:14 AM
Like so many things in my life these days, this wish list is woefully out of date. I added the Wiltberger mark some time ago; his son never had a mark. He trained to the trade, but gave it up to become a missionary. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 10-24-2008 05:55 AM
 There was also an Oliver S Clark who was born in 1828 in Connecticut and a jeweler in 1860 in Norwalk, Connecticut. IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 06:40 PM
William Drysdale's mark: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 06:48 PM
A mark for Ziba Ferris: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 06:52 PM
A cleaner Wiltberger mark: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 06:56 PM
A W. Whiting mark, not sure whose, but appears to be first or second quarter 19th century: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:08 PM
Possibly Woodcock & Byrnes: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:19 PM
Walter Burnham King of Warren, OH: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:20 PM
An A. Lockwood mark not on the site: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:32 PM
An Alfred Lockwood mark not on the site: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:39 PM
William Hanse McDowell: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:45 PM
A C. (presumably Caleb) Kendall mark not on the site (overstrike of Sullivan Kendall mark is the only one I saw): IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:53 PM
Thomas J. Shepard and W. A. Sharrard, from a julep cup: IP: Logged |
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avalata Posts: 61 |
posted 10-24-2008 07:56 PM
Zebulon Smith: IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 11-03-2008 07:23 AM
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-21-2009 04:21 AM
In the 1857 New York Business Directory, a firm named the Haight & Brother is listed in Buffalo. In the 1860 U S Federal Census for Buffalo, New York Andrew J and Moses Haight are listed together IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-10-2009 02:41 PM
John P Adams shows up as a silverplater in the 1870 U S Federal Census for Brooklyn, and he was living with his brother Caleb C Adams at that time. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-17-2009 12:04 PM
Samuel Babcock is an interesting gentleman on this list. Along with being a spectacle manufacturer, his father had an 1829 patent for spectacles with spiral springs, he was a Middletown, Connecticut postmaster and Mayor. He was a lock manufacturer, Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad Company Director and Vice President, banker and more. IP: Logged |
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