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Antique Questions Forum / Re: hallmarks on a spoon

« on: March 05, 2013, 03:15:08 pm »

Nope...it is JG over FP

Here's another example for you:

http://www.silversugartongs.com/exeter/Francis%20Parsons%20and%20Joseph%20Goss/Francis%20Parsons%20and%20Joseph%20Goss%201813.htm

I believe that last mark can be a city import mark.
B is date mark
Leopard is city mark

could it be worth anything

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: hallmarks on a spoon

« on: March 05, 2013, 02:53:10 pm »

JG over FP   is Joseph Goss & Francis Parsons, 1810..1813
hi its EP

No, it's a serif F.

Can we see the rest of the spoon ?


I will upload a picture...what about the other hallmarks any idea

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: hallmarks on a spoon

« on: March 05, 2013, 02:24:27 pm »

JG over FP   is Joseph Goss & Francis Parsons, 1810..1813
hi its EP

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Antique Questions Forum / hallmarks on a spoon

« on: March 05, 2013, 02:11:19 pm »

could anybody give me some infomation

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?

« on: February 01, 2013, 08:17:33 am »

FG Pearson (Tools, Metalworks, Garden Tools) is in Sheffield, JOHN BROWN & Co. Ltd. (ATLAS IRON, STEEL & SPRING WORKS) is in Sheffield.
http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/7059-1871-trade-directory-images/page-7

Couldn't find anything on Weast.  

Are you sure it is weast?
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Yea its weast but weast is a small town in Manchester

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?

« on: January 31, 2013, 11:20:13 am »

My eyes are playing tricks on me...can you please tell us what the lettering is it?!?

pearson & brown

on other side it says weast

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Antique Questions Forum / cast iron swing back bench ends?

« on: January 31, 2013, 09:09:57 am »

can anybody tell me anything about this subject....when they started making them....can they have value....im based in manchester uk...i got the bench off an old lady she said she had the bench in her garden for 50+ years the wood was rotten so i kept the cast iron ends...pictures will soon follow