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David.Boettcher Posts: 2 |
posted 03-23-2011 08:10 AM
  
I am a watch collector and historian. I am researching an Anglo-Swiss watch company called Stauffer Son & Co. This company opened a branch in London called Stauffer & Co. in about 1856 to import and wholesale gold and silver watches. In 1877 one of the directors of the London branch, Charles Nicolet, registered his initials as a sponsor's mark with the London Assay Office, presumably in response to the 1876 act requiring all foreign plate to assayed and hallmarked with an "F". But the 1876 act was a reenactment of an 1867 act, which also required all foreign plate to be assayed and marked F. I have been unable to find any reference to a sponsor's mark being registered to Stauffer or Nicolet before 1877, so my question is what did they do about assaying watches between 1867 and 1877? Was the earlier 1867 act not enforced, which was why it had to be reenacted in 1876? IP: Logged |
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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 03-23-2011 05:05 PM
I can't offer anything on the reasons for the various Acts requiring hallmarks. However, imported gold and silver was required to be properly marked even before the 1867 Act which introduced the F mark. Before the firm in question entered its own mark it may have used an agent as sponsor or, as a wholesaler, may have been supplying companies which themselves acted as sponsors. Or might it just have been supplying movements which were fitted into English made cases? In any event, I don't think it would have got away with supplying cases that were not propery marked. IP: Logged |
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David.Boettcher Posts: 2 |
posted 03-24-2011 04:22 AM
Thanks, that gives me an idea of what to look for. I found this report in The Times of a theft of some watches in 1842 from which it appears that A B Savory & Son was the importer before Stauffer set up their own operation, so Stauffer may have continued using them as assay agents. IP: Logged |
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