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Giorgio
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168 comments:
You have a great site and it really is the best on the internet.
Lee
I have used your site on many occasions identifying various pieces that I have collected and I have found it extremely helpful
Pat
much impressed by your site
Nicolas
I want to thank you very much for all your hard work on this website
Merav S.
I was very happy to see your site, you seem to have more information then any other site I have seen and I appreciate all your hard work you do
Laurel B.
What a wonderful resource you have
Jennifer
Your website is the best
Andrew
Congratulations for your very interesting website
Hervé
I looked through your website and enjoyed it. You are a real collector!
YOUR WEBSITE ON SILVER MARKS ETC IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN. EVEN BETTER THAN THE BOOKS I HAVE USED. MANY THANKS. DAVID SUNRAY ARUNDEL ENGLAND
Great website... I found it by accident and spent hours searching throught it!
Thank you for making it available!
Douce
Thanks for sharing all the information, as well as sharing your collection with the world! I just spent several hours enjoying the photos & info!
Kindest Regards,
Carole
I'd like to thank you for your great website! It has helped me in my identification of numerous pieces of silver
Kirk
Your website is fabulous!! I have used it several times for finding silver plate marks and it has been a godsend!
Jane
Thank you for the use of your wonderful website. I have a russian cane handle which I am interested in selling, but after looking at the good fakes that you posted I am leery of offering it for sale. It looks like you have gone through a lot of work that is beneficial to others and it is much appreciated. Fare thee well.
I want to thank you for your excellent website, which I visit often.
Edgar
New to this, your website has more information than I have been able to find anywhere else
Gary
Have been using this site
for reference for a year.
What a wonderful reference and so much appreciated!
Darlyn in Florida
I truly admire your extensive silver website which every now and then helps me in identifying German silver
Thomas
Thank you for making your pages on silver and silverplate available on the Internet. I am a small and not too serious collector of silver and silverplate and I find your pages on Elkington particularly useful
Eric
Your silver website was great........
Cheryl
WOW, And thank you
I am new to the silver from the past!
I inherited allot of beautiful things from my Aunt Josephine and also my Aunt Ethel and Uncle Jack and a few pieces from Major Bowes estate and I try to find out values so I don't get ripped off when I try to sell the pieces.
I have saved some and want to sell the rest ..but I don't know ...yet what I have .
Thank you for your FREE site !!
I would like to donate at some time in the future to your endevor!
best regards,
Mark H.
I just wanted to say you really have wonderful informative web-site, as I have been using it now for some time and it’s helped me identify many pieces in both my personally collection and items that I have sold in the past.
Mason K.
very usefull and terrific site..A++ job. Easily navogatable. We will be adding you to our Ebay Affiliate site as a search -esearch tool. Love it.
Ciao Peter...
Thank you for the opportunity to view your fantastic web site on silver and silver plated items.
Keith
YOU are the best!
I love your website, the best resource
thank you!
Will
I've found your site very interesting and useful. Many thanks
Tony
Thank you for your website. Its a reference source thats precious and all praise to you.
David
Dear Sir, let me thank you for your excellent site..its a world of knowledge!
Bobby,
New Zealand
I would like to thank you for sharing such valuable information on your website. You have quite a remarkable collection.
Denise
My compliments on your wonderful site. Exceptionally informative, and has assisted me to identify a number of silver pieces.
Many thanks, good hunting for more silver!
Kind regards
Kora & Stefan
You have created an astonishing data base for the industry and must read for the novice!
Floyd
I am writing to you from Spain from where I usually visit your great site.
Olympia
Thanks for your website, it's great!
Yvonne
Thank you for a wonderful site and teaching me about Silver.
Sincerely,
Sylvia
Your efforts in building and maintaining this outstanding web resource are highly commendable. You are a tremendous asset indeed to silver collectors worldwide regardless of their individual level of expertise. I have recommended the site to dozens of collectors and dealers and the response from all is an overwhelming "WOW!". Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Wayne M. (Idaho, USA)
Hi, just a quick note to thank you for your web site. It is a tremendous resource and I have learnt a great deal about hallmarks through your in depth collection of information and photographs.
Again, sincere thanks and regards
Thanks for a very interesting and informative website. I can appreciate it must have taken a herculean effort to document everything you have collected.
Ralph
Thanks for all of the information on your website it is very informative
Kimberly
I want to thank you for your website. I recently inherited a considerable amount of sterling and silver-plate hollowware and could not have identified the pieces without your site. I have learned so much.
Monica
You're web page is amazing and a great help to many of us on Treasurenet.com in helping us identify markings. We Thank You for your knowledge and sharing it with everyone.
Annmarie
Dear Giorgio,
congratulations for your exceptional website. It is the best encylopaedia on silver I know.
I used it because I had some specific questions, and I missed only one answer.
Gerald
I am delighted to say your website has turned out to be invaluable in checking information - far better than others I had accessed.
Madeleine
I have enjoyed your website and the wealth of excellent quality information presented. It has clearly taken a lot of time and been a labour of love.
Dennis
since two years, i search and found items, for veryfying on the best silversite of the world: that yours.!!!
thanks for this one giorgio
Stephan
I looked at your silver site and found many very interesting pieces and info.
I congratulate for this fine way of sharing your knowledge and collection.
Jean Pierre
You have a wonderful site! I have found very useful information regarding my silver collection.
Thank you so much and for such a great and informative site.
Linda
I wanted to say your site represents a labour of love. You have done a fabulous job!
Joann
You have a very nice site and I enjoyed viewing it
Mark
Fantastic web page that I use often to identify silver plate makers UK.
Paul
Fantastic website - have learnt so much
Adele
I have come to your website many times, and usually found an answer to what I am looking for.
I am very impressed with your keen and methodical mind!
Andrew
Thank you so very much, for this most infomative website. Please add more about Anique Pewter by Reed and Baron, if available
Allow me to congratulate you for the splendor of your website, and express my most sincere gratitude for your impressive work.
I was looking for something like this for ages, and kept looking for old silver hallmark books, but with no real success.
Stanislas
Congratulations for your outstanding website in field.
Jean-Marc.
a wonderful site - clearly a work of love - thank you.
Janet
I have just been reading your 'silver' website - amazing...
Derek
Thank you for providing such an informative site!
Katie
I have found your site absolutely wonderful!!
Janetta
Just wanted to say I enjoy your site very much.
I had it bookmarked and lost it somehow.
I am excited to get back to it.
Theresa
Thanks for your very nice website…..it is so helpful in all the ways , and very unique!
Philippe
I am very impressed with your website. I believe that you have created the best site about silver works of art.
Michael
Thanks for your amazing website
Janice
I just spent a good deal of time browsing your website. Very comprehensive!
Cindy
What a nice and well organized resource you have provided. Thank you.
What a wonderful and well organized resource. Thank you for providing it.
Hi! your website is a best I never seen!! I collect also olds sivers plates of everys countrys! thank you for all!! I keep your website in favorite place on my computer;it's really an encyclopaedia! thank you for that.
Sincerely
Dominique
Your Silver Collection website is amazing! What a lot of information.
You have become such an expert and it is great that you share with the whole world.
I'm sure that many people will continue to find your website valuable for many, many years to come.
Andre
(Canada)
I really enjoyed your web site - very nice & thank you for the information that it contains!
Brian
I would like to say i have been using your website for some time and it is fantastic.
Mark
Thank you for putting together the most excellent website on silver antiques! It is truly an impressive task that you created for people~again, Thank You.
Lisanne
Love your site, many hours of work and a great help with identifying pieces.
Shirley
Thank you for your wonderfully informative silver mark site.
Keith
I think your unindentifed English electro plate maker of S&B is Slack & Barlow. Thanks for a great site!
Just to say Thank you for your site...
William
thanks for hosting a great and informative web site
Joe
I came across your beautiful collection of silver on the internet and was absorbed for hours.
Not only your collection – but your very well organized site and I am sure many countless hours researching are much appreciated.
Shannon
I have discovered your fantastic web site about silver objects...Congratulations
Jean-Didier
I've been viewing your website and I have to say its rather impressive
Neil
I have just spent about 3 hours on your site! I love it!
Janice
Thank you for putting out such a great website
Josue
I love your website and have used it several times to help me identify a mark. Sometimes I just love to look at all you have and have learned a lot from the information you provide.
Diana
What a fantastic and concise website you have - it shows your dedication and willingness to share your knowledge free of charge. I dont know much about silver but after buying some 1899 silver items off Ebay I have found your site to be very accurate. Thanks for the wonderful resource.
Lisa P. Australia
I just had to write to congratulate you to your fantastic homepage
Christy
I have followed your website over the years, it provides the most excellent information on silver and I love to browse your collection.
Crystal
I have learned more from your site then I have in months of searching. I still haven't found what I am looking for and I really have spent monthes online and at a library. Do you have suggestions? I hope you take this he right way but I was almost sorry I found your page, I have spent four hours looking at everything:)
Great Site!Ilove the pictures of the beautiful pieces. I have spent almost a year looking for an answer. Can you suggest anything or anyone? I am not looking to apraise so much as to find outwhere it came from. Anyway, thanks for the information and sharing your exquisite pieces.
My mail address is in the home page. Be patient and you'll find the contact link
Thanks for your appreciation of my web site
Giorgio
I had a look into your great web site about silver hallmarks, manufacturers and their markings. It is amazing and very helpful for collectors!!!
Radek
I found your page fascinating. Thank you for your work in putting so much together!
Christine
I would like to say how impressive your site is. The Amount of
work you have put into it must have been enormous
Steve
Your site is awesome!
Trish
Gentile Sig. Giorgio,
il suo sito è il più completo ed interessante tra quelli che ho visitato. Ed anche in diverse lingue! Utilissimo! Grazie.
Irina Smirnova.
Wonderful site, really informative especially for a complete know nothing like me. Identified the maker and date of the item I was looking at easily. Thanks
You show "J C Ltd into 3 concentric circles" as "Not Identified"
My 1938 Cruet Set, with the above mark shows "Patent No 325841" - Registered to J Collyer Ltd of Birmingham.
Mystery solved?
Ron Farmer, Canada.
Thanks for your information.
Giorgio
je tiens à vous féliciter chaleureusement pour le site silvercollection, qui est tout à fait remarquable
FM
Great website, thank you so much. You have a lot of information and your collection on Australian silver marks was really valuable to me - you are very generous with your knowledge. Thank you again.
Thanks for a great, informative and easy to use site
Craig
I have spent a great deal of time on your website. It is extremely informative
Kelly
Just want to say that I love your site! its helped me many many times identify silver items makers, and era that they have come from
Bill
I love your site, it's the best one on the net. I have found a spelling mistake which may throw some people off, it is as follows:-L&WS is GEORGE SHADFORD LEE & WIGFULL but is down as STADFORD on the main page instead of SHADFORD. I hope you didn't mind me saying. I have just been to your facebook page and LIKED you. Thanks. Elaine.
Superbe site, qui m'a permis d'identifier l'origine d'une vielle pipe de famille. Merci.
Jean-François
want to thank you for your wonderful website, which helps me a lot learning more about silver and silver hallmarks, it's great!
Vera
I just had to write and say compliments for the most amazing web site, full of pages and pages of usefull info, infact it helped me on understanding the origins of several pices of silver i have in my small collection
Fraser
Just a note to say how much I appreciate your site which I use almost weekly!
Richard
what a wonderful collection and how generous of you to share all that info with us. Thank you.
Jann
Thank you for creating your wonderful website. It is very comprehensive, and it has been extremely valuable to me in discovering more about our family's fairly extensive silver collection, some of which dates back to the mid 18th century. I still have many items to trawl through, and some which I just can't identify, but you're website has helped me tremendously! It must have taken you a very long time to build, so congratulations - you've created a wonderful resource.
Alex
I love your website, it is wonderful and helpful to many silver collectors such as myself and I always admire your gorgeous collection!
Crystal
I have a spoon of what was EP on possibly brass - no other marks other than EP in an oval. Bone handle. The bowl of the spoon is decorated with an engravedbranch of a tree. How do I go about identifying this piece?
Your site is brilliant and totally comprehensive
EP means Electro Plated. Your spoon has no maker's mark and is not possible to date it or identify its origin.
Giorgio
The most useful site I ever use - invaluable. This site has helped me out on so many occasions. Many, many thanks.
Thank you for this site full of wonders. I have found it very interesting and very helpful.
Regards,
Don
Canada
You have a beautifully done site with an abundance of information.
Thank you for this wonderful site.
Don't see info. on marking REX under Mexican sterling silver and was hoping someone could post some info. Thanks!
You have a beautifully done site with an abundance of information.
Thank you for this wonderful site.
Don't see info. on marking REX under Mexican sterling silver and was hoping someone could post some info. Thanks!
Have looked at your web site and it’s wealth of information.
fantastic !!
Gus
One of the best sites for silver i have seen. You are a great resource and i thank you for your efforts.
Very much appreciated!
I have enjoyed your site and continue to find it useful
you've build up a very great web page and collection. It was easy for me as a novice in silver art to find the hallmark I was looking for.
Mark
Hello you have a wonderful site and it has been invaluable to me. Thank you very much.
Not sure if this is of interest but was looking for this Russian silversmith KK and it is not on your site. If you are interested this is Konstantin Knyazev Silversmith St Petersburg (around 1884)
Thank you again I am greatly indebted to you.
While researching a hallmark on your site i came across the exact same piece that started me looking. The example you have for Lawson Co. Glasgow is identical to the piece I received in a box lot at auction. My piece has the exact initial (M) on the front. In all ways its a perfect match. Is the piece sterling or silver plate?
Thanks so much.
Debi
The piece illustrated in my webpage is sterling silver
Giorgio
I would like to thank you for creating and maintaining the best site for silver collectors.
The coverage, the content, and the most useful information on various topics related to silver is simply outstanding
Barry
You have an amazing web site. I cannot imagine how you do it.
Rod
your site is an outstanding reference for those with an interest in silver!! I'm sure you know that many people, including me, use it as a main source of information when researching silver. Thank you for taking the time to maintain your most impressive site :)
Doborah
This is the most useful and informative site on the net. Have used it a dozen times to identify makers. Many thanks!
Chris
I have found your website to be very informative and easy to use
John
Thank you so much for your effort and research – it has been a tremendous help to us when identifying pieces for Auction on EBay
Lise
Thank you very much for your wonderful web site and for giving me a new interest in life
Geoff
Hi I have also used your site for years. And every time I envy your systematic. Would love to have similar order. Have just been going your collection - every single one. You and I collect in similar way. Our collection contain silver - new, old, various countries, makers etc. And no other line of collecting. I would like to visit you sometime to see the collection live. But we will proberly never meet in real.
Collecting buaty and buatiful silver
Hope to see more goodies in your growing collection
hose_dk
An excellent site. I use it to identify a large number of objects.
I have a small correction however as you have ' A over I.C over N into a quatrefoil
Ann Craig & John Neville - possibly-
London 1764 hallmark' in fact this is an 'S' not a 'C' as I have seen this as yet unidentified mark on a piece more clearly than the one in your image. I hope this helps.
Thanks for your information. Grimwade 3689 quotes it as an "unregistered mark" (unidentified)
silvercollection.it
First I want to tell you that I believe you have the best silver/pewter reference site on the internet. Thank you! I use it all the time to reference the silver and pewter I buy.
Laurie
Un grand bravo tout d'abord pour la qualité de votre site
Catherine
Your website is marvellous by the way!
Leila
This is a wonderful and useful site however I was not able to find information about Malcolm Gray or the Ortak Co. I was just wondering if I was looking in the wrong places or if it is an omission.
silvercollection.it deals with antique silver and contemporary jewellery isn't its target. The only information I have about Malcolm Gray is available at http://www.silvercollection.it/Englishsilvermarks3M.html (description of the mark without image)
This is an excellent site. Walter Harley, an Irish convict who worked in Sydney for Jacob Josephson, in 1820 was probably the unidentified Australian silversmith "WH".
Thank you for your help, and your website. It peaked my interest once I found your website and now I am fascinated. The site is fantastic and addictive
Mary
Your silvercollection.it website has been an invaluable source of information when I research new silver items I've bought, or when I want to sell them on ebay, or buy them. Very few other websites offer such a comprehensive list of silver hallmarks and maker's marks. I just want to comment here to thank you for all the hard work you put into it. Bravo! :)
Sara
you have an awesome very informative site
Laurent
my compliments on a FANTASTIC website, its so very informative and i think a must for anyone venturing into the field of antiques. Brilliant job!
Antonio
You don't know me, but I was just on your silver website, and I think its great!!!
Aaron
je voudrais vous féliciter et vous remercier pour votre site auquel je me réfère bien souvent pour l'identification des poinçons
Gisèle
Thank you for sharing your expertise. This is a remarkable site. Jos
thank you for providing for all this useful information for free to the public. How very generous of you!
Saori
I love your site and I thank you for your hard work in educating people like myself.
It has been invaluable in locating the silver and silver plate hallmarks of the makers of several pieces.
Matt
I enjoyed using your website as a resource and thank you for creating it.
Teresa
un grand bravo pour le site. c'est vraiment efficace et bien fait
Jeff
congratulation for your website, it is a true Wikipedia for silverware
Ronald
I want to say this site is great and has been very helpful many times
Justin
Thank you so much for your website. I have found information on my pipe
Janice
your website is coming along wonderfully and I use it often.
Cora
Hi. I am a Hutton. My Grandfather, Herbert (junior) was the last family MD of William Hutton and Sons before the company failed in 1930. That was due to lack of foresight by the Chairman of the Board of directors.
You say in your history that William Carr Hutton was joined by his Eldest son Herbert (senior) in 1864. Firstly, Herbert was the youngest son of W.C.H. born in 1843. His eldest was William Henry, b.1838, who took no part in the business. The next eldest was James Edward, b.1839 and then Robert, b.1840. Both James Edward (Hallmark-EH)and Robert (Hallmark- RH and rh) were in the business until they retired early due to ill health. James Edward is my great, great Grandfather.
There are many who have used the information in your description of the Hutton history and I am simply trying to put the correct information in your site.
Thanks for your information about Hutton. The webpage is now updated with your precious information
This site is brilliant, a veritable treasure trove of wonderful information to help anyone who collects, researches and preserve metal ware. Being able to track down makers and their marks would be extremely difficult were it not for the dedication of the great people who put together sites such as this. A massive thumbs up for this site!
Bruce
I use your website almost every day for work and research and with out your valuable information I would regularly be hitting my head against a brick wall. So THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Maryanne
Merci pour rendre disponible à tous les renseignements qui figurent sur votre site, qui est le meilleur que je connaisse en ce domaine jusqu'à présent
Arnaud
Hi just to say what an excellent site I have been using you for years it just keeps getting better. Fantastic so much work put in to this website thank you so very much for making it so easy to navigate.
Frances C.
19th September 2013
Great site you have very helpful.
Bruce
Siete un grande aiuto, grazie mille, e tanti baci per natale.
Hi, Just found your fantastic site, as I was searching to date a set of 6 Fairmont Hotel (stamped on back)spoons; on front stamped FF, with the 1st a mirror image of the second F; has
a shell pattern on both sides & additional shell on back of spoon bowl. They are lovely. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Shaun
the maker could be FURNISS, see http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverFdue.html (I suggest to use my facebook page to post a photo)
What an informative site. Just about to put a collection of odd EPNS cutlery on ebay only to find that one item had a hallmark for Hawksworth Eyre and Co. My family name is Eyre wonder if it must be a family item. Off to research my family lineage and not selling this item just yet.
Yvonne R
Hello there Giorgio, I am from Australia and have 6 cute matching spoons made in Birmingham, with the date letter z that looks like 1920. It has the Maker's mark as W.R. & H.L and I have searched your wonderful site, but alas I cannot find these silversmiths and wondered if you might have a clue or could send me in the right direction, per favor and grazie, David outside Sydney... :) :) :)
WR & HL was sometimes used by Walker & Hall (R and L: lowercase)
Brilliant site.
What a great site and absolutely invaluable research tool. Just used it to identify Deakin & Francis but did notice the hallmark shown is for Birmingham 1974 rather than 1924 as stated. Thanks again.
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