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wev Moderator Posts: 4132 Registered: Apr 99	posted 02-05-2008 07:51 PM This gentleman is termed in an 1875 family history as a well-known jeweler and watchmaker working in Montreal c 1804-1849. An online source notes more than 18 pieces of flat and holloware (with no pictures) under his name in the Birks Collection at the National Gallery of Canada. Did he actually work as a silversmith? Does anyone have a picture of his mark? IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 02-05-2008 08:48 PM Hello Wev! I don't know if this book may help, but if someone has a copy of Unitt's Book of Marks, the marks or info may be found there, perhaps under Dwight & Savage. Enjoy the Evening! Jersey IP: Logged
FWG Posts: 845 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 02-06-2008 10:17 AM According to Traquair: quote: ... spoons have been found bearing the mark I.A.D., probably the mark of James A. Dwight who was a jeweller in Montreal from 1809 to 1842. It is improbable that these spoons were made by Dwight, or even in his establishment. quote: -1815-43- Dwight, J. A. Advertised in the Canadian Courant of 1815, and 1817. In Doige's List of 1819: Montreal Directory 1842-3. Dwight was an importer but the mark of J.A.D. with pseudo-English marks is found on silver which was probably made for him. He was in a partnership as Cheney & Dwight in 1819. Traquair also shows a drawing of the JAD mark set. The second quote is from his list of silversmiths, and seems to be drawn from directory listings; presumably there is a different source for the somewhat earlier date given in the first place. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4132 Registered: Apr 99	posted 02-06-2008 11:31 AM Thanks for that. He is an interesting fellow. It appears that he packed up his goods in 1849 and headed to California. He made it up-river to Sacramento by April of 1850, opened a shop, and was dead of fever by June. His son and namesake was also a jeweler, working in NYC, Ypsilanti MI, and Rockport IL. IP: Logged

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