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Unknown makers mark
Hi all, can any body identify the makers from their mark on this officers badge. It reads
A & W Ltd B'ham. Cheers John |
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Should have asked, expand on the details, ie full name, address, when operating and other known badges by this maker. I have not come across the name before.
John |
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British Legion/Royal British Legion , Poppy/Remembrance/Commemorative. Poppy and British Legion Wanted |
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Thanks Mike, seems to be a relatively unknown maker. This badge is a good quality and crisp strike bronze officers badge, I am happy it is genuine.
John |
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Atkin & Wigley?
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The mark has been found on various buttons.
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British Legion/Royal British Legion , Poppy/Remembrance/Commemorative. Poppy and British Legion Wanted |
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Hi
Possible that they made gold & silver work that was hallmarked. Check out the British Silver Maker's Marks website. I'm dashing now, but I'll try and post a link later |
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Nothing on the silvermarks website.
But i did find a reference to a back mark on buttons. Unfortunately although the button is illustrated ,there is no more information regarding who made it. |
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I would like to know what it stands for as well, Other Ranks General Service buttons are quite common with this mark in large and medium drop shank and medium fixed shank (epaulette ?) sizes.
Rob |
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Can we have a date for this badge, e.g. WWI?
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It has a George V cypher, so 1910-1935 period approx when made.
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It’s a GviR cypher so 1936-52.
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Hi
I've used the hallmarks site to identify some badge makers before so it was just a thought. You could try searching Graces Guide (no, not some online dating thingy....) and that might list firms that made buttons. I don't collect buttons or badges per se but I do know that buttons were not an easy thing to produce if they were made traditionally. Clearly this firm did badges and buttons so of some note. Doesn't Birmingham have a jewellery quarter museum? Records? Hope you do find the answer! |
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To find this company one needs a Kelly's directory for Warwickshire from the late 1930s or 1940s.
One has to find an incorporated company with the proper tools to make buttons active in a non military trade. During wartime all governments distributed materials and handed out orders to manufacturers. E.g. the leading USA compact maker manufactured US Army buttons during WWII. There must have been a shortage of compacts during WWII. I could not find a downloadable Kelly's from the period and I have tried my luck on a 1914 Trade Directory. Note: these are only options! No solution given! Anstey and Wilson were a Birmingham-based electro plated ware manufacturing company and appear to have been trading right up until the late 1990s when it was dissolved. also stainless steel dinner knives Anstey & Wilson limited. Incorporated 13 March 1957, dissolved. Not a candidate if there was not an earlier incorporation. Alabaster & Wilson, 11 Legge Lane, goldsmiths, jewellers manufacturers Alabaster & Wilson Ltd. established 1887, incorporated 1947. http://www.alabasterandwilson.com/ I am expecting wartime production. As they were incorporated in 1947 they are not a candidate. Altendorf & Wright, Vesey str. St. Mary's - gun stock makers and dealers, tin plate workers. A strong candidate, but dissolved in the early 1930s. A valid suggestion made by member RSM: Charles Herbert Atkins & Ernest Wigley, 171 Hockley Hill, Birmingham (c.1920) not in 1914 trade directory 1914: Wigley & Hall, 87 Vyse St. as jewellery factors & wholesale jewellers 1914: F.W. Atkins, 106 Vyse St. Jewellers manufacturing no trace of being incorporated. not researched: Alexander & Ward, 19 Claybrook St., music & musical instrument makers & dealers, piano tuners. |
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