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'Collecting Domestic Copper and Brass'

The book is being written to cover collectible copper and brass  that is available now within a moderate budget.  This is a list of most of the makers of domestic copper and brass products so far covered together with hot links to their details.    

Developing Pages

Ankhs & Orbs

Beldray

Benham

WAS Benson

Birmingham Brass

Birmingham Guild

Bradley and Hubbard

Bristol Brass

James Cartland & Co

Croft & Assinder

Elkington & Co.

Elpec

Festival of Britain

Guernsey & Jersey Jugs

Kinco Brassware

KSIA

Loveridge

Makers Marks

May & Padmore

Newlyn

Peerage

J & F Poole Hayle Copper

Rhodesian Copper

Roycroft

Sankey

William Soutter & Sons Co.  (Soutterware)

William Tonks & Sons

Townshend & Co

Virginia Metalcrafters

List of Marks A-B 

WMF

Air Mail   American mark.

R G Agnew, Guernsey. 

AFC (Co?).

Adie Bros,  Adie Manufacturing Co

Aladdin International

Albion - see Rippingills

Alderson & Gyde Ltd.

E A Allen and Co, Birmingham.

Ethan Allen, USA.

AM.

A M & Sons.

Anacortes Brass

Anderson & Sons, Glasgow

Ansonia Brass Co   

AR  (or AP?) -see under . 

Army and Navy Stores.

Artingam and Smith

Askew, Nottingham

Aston Brass & Engineering Co. (Valor)

Aston Chain and Hook Co. Ltd.,

Atlanta Copper

Atlas Metal Spinning.

W T Avery & Co.

Avon Coppersmith

Bachman, E W 

‘B’ unknown mark.

Bailey Gill - see Leslie & Co.

Bailey & Mackay

Baldwin Brass

Banks Brownsey. 

Bancroft Brothers,

F Barnes & Son 

L Barth & Son, New York.

Bates Brass  - Bates & Sons.

Bayley & Street.

Paul Beau, Mountain Street, Montreal, Canada.

Beldray – see Bradley and Co., 

Benedict Karnak, USA

Benedict Proctor Mfg. Co.  (Flemish Copper)

Benetfink & Co. London

Benham & Sons 

Benham & Froude    

W. A. S. Benson. 

J  J Bent & Co.

Benton & Stone (Enots)

Bergamot Brass Works.

Berkshire Crafts, Mass.

Berry, Albert, unknown mark.

Gebrüder Bing.

Birmingham Brass, Connecticut.

Birmingham Brass Manufacturers  

Birmingham Mining & Copper Co.

Birmingham Mint 

Birmingham School of Handicrafts 

Birmingham Small Arms  (BSA)  

Bladon, Thos E. 

Bland, Thomas, information needed

BN C (unknown mark)

Blews, William Blews & Sons

Bodil Parker, Bodil & Co., 

Boliden

Thomas Bolton & Sons

Boulton & Watt

BP Co. Flemish Copper

Bradley & Co, Bilston (Beldray)

Bradley and Hubbard  

Sacha Brastoff

BREVETE S.D.G.D .

W H Briscoe & Co. Ltd,

Bristol Brass 

Bodhill & Co., Bodhill Parker

J Buist, Edinburgh

Bullpitt & Sons (Swan Brand)

Bunn, Charles

Burmos - see Towson & Coxson 

J H Butler

Laurence Butler

Butte Copper, Montana

Buttons Ltd. 

WB Co  see  under Williams Bros.

C & A - see Croft & Assinder

C & B

Calbral Ware, unknown mark of coppersmith.

Cambron

Cape Cod Shop.

James Cartland & Sons.

Carron Foundry.

CC41   'Utility' Standards.

CDE Carl Deffner, Esslingen, 

Chase Brass and Copper Co., Inc.

Chesterman, James

Christofle & Cie., Saint Denis, France,

'Clayrite' Trade Mark on an oil can.

Clews, James Clews, Birmingham

Clifford, Charles & Son, Birmingham,

Collins, James

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Confecsilios, Colombia

Coppercraft Guild

Copper Craft, Guernsey. 

Copper Development Association Inc.,

Copperworks, California.

Coseley Brass Foundry, Staffordshire

Cotterill (Acme)

Coventry Craft

Crane Foundry, Wolverhampton.

Crane Industries, Crane Ware

Craftsman Copper, California.

Croft & Assinder, (C & A)

Crown Copper Company

Currie & Warner, Birmingham.

Cycle Components Mfg Co Ltd. 

Dalarna, Sweden.

Davey & Co.,  Guernsey 

Davies & Hill

Davis & Mawson

Davis & Heaps

Carl Deffner, Esslingen, CDE

DeHillerin, France.

Delta Metal Co.

Derricourt Brassware  (Lombard)

Dervelea  Products

Desmo

Diamond Brand - see Thomas Bladon

Dinanderie from the historic brassmaking town in Belgium

DM Co – unknown mark.

Dirigold, USA Dirilyte™

Down Bros, London

Christopher Dresser

Drumgold, California.

Dryad Lester, information needed.

Dyer, Herbert

Earl Bourne

Eclat  information needed.

Elkington.

Elpec (Lloyd Pascal).

Emca, maker of whistles, more details needed

Empress Ware NY.

Enots  - see Benton & Stone

Knut Eriksson Co.

Essex Brass.

'ETAS',  Enoch Tonks & Sons Ltd., Temple Works, Willenhall, West Midlands.

Ettingshall, Wolverhampton.

Eustace Brothers - see J F Poole & Co Hayle Copper

Evered & Co.

EVW, information needed.

Ewart & Son, 346-350, Euston Road, London.  

'Ezeglide', Trade Name for a curtain rail section.

AFC (Co.), information needed

FAIB, information needed.

Falk Stedelmann & Co.

Farberware.

Fattorini  

H F Fearncombe & Co.

Festival of Britain  

Firmin & Sons Ltd. 

Fisher Ludlow, Birmingham.

F & R Fischer, Germany (Twin Fish Mark)

Flemish Copper B.P. Co.

French, W T & Co. (Mysto)

Gabriel, Percy & Co.

GAD, information needed.

R. G & Co. G.  see R. Greenlees, Glasgow.

Garrison, Trademark of Newton, Shakespeare and Company Ltd. Birmingham.

Gaunt, J. R. Gaunt & Sons 

Geschützt. - German quality mark.

Gibbons, James Ltd.

S. Gill, & Co., Ltd.

Gittins Craftsmen Ltd.,  Birmingham.

Glasgow School of Art.

Glencroft

Gomm Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,  (Webaware)

Gorham Manufacturing Co. 

R. Greenlees & Co. Ltd.,   Glasgow.

Gregorian Copper

Griffin Foundry

Griffiths & Browett, Birmingham,

Grillby Metallfabrik, Grillby, Sweden

Guernsey Jugs  

Guests Brass Stamping Co., Birmingham

'Gunga Din' (see Moorgate (Birmingham) Ltd.

Hagenauer Wien

‘HW’ see Hugh Wallis

Hall, Samuel, & Sons (SHS?)

'Hand' mark, information needed,

Harcourts Ltd.

R Harris (Spraygen)

A. J. Harrison (Mandarin Ware)

W. Harrison,

Harrods

Hart, Son, Peard & Co. Ltd.,  Birmingham.

Hawes, Stourbridge.

G&J W Hawksley,

E W Hayden, USA

Hayle copper

Heath, Hicks & Perkins

Heath, Samuel & Sons (SHS) 

Hecla

Hellberg, Sweden

Heinrichs, Joseph

Heinz Art Metal

Hernon Smith

Hepp Brothers, Germany,

Joseph Hinks. 

Hockley Lamp & Limelight   

Hodges, Rowland.

H. Holmes.

Stuart Houghton

Howes & Burley, Birmingham,

HT & S (Sons) , information welcome

J Hudson & Co.,   

Humex mark raised on a greenhouse heater.

ISKRA  see  WMF

Isles, Charles Isles & Gomms Ltd. 

Leon Jaeggi &Sons

L C Jay & Son Ltd.

JC&S - see J Cartland & Son

Jenkins,  Henry Jenkins & Sons. 

Jennings Bros.

Jersey Copper Jugs    

John Jewsbury & Co. Ltd. see

Johnson & Ravey. 

Jollyware Reproductions, Alfred Jolly & Son

A. E. Jones, Birmingham, art coppersmith       

Jones Brothers & Co., Wolverhampton

Jones Brothers, London.

W. Jones.

JS&S – see Sankey 

JW/B  see Joseph Walker.

JW & S (Sons) see Joseph Walker

NMK, Neues Münchner Kunstgewerbe

Karnak, Benedict, USA

Kayserzinn, Germany

KDM, Royal Daalderop Holland

Keeler Brass.

A Kenrick & Son

E. Kendrick

Kinco, Kingston Metal Co.

King's Norton Metal Company, Birmingham

KSIA, Keswick School of Industrial Art 

C Kurz & Co., Tiel, Holland

Kynoch, Birmingham.   

Lakeland Rural Industries, LRI Borrowdale 

‘L’  information needed.

Lancelott

Lampe Nationale - see Midland Lighting Co.

Larsen & Shaw

George J Laurens, Jersey. 

Lawden and Poole, Birmingham.

'L C ' mark with fouled anchor.

W Lee

Le Lievres Ltd., Guernsey  

Lempreur & Bernard (L & B)

Benjamin Lilly & Sons

Linley & Co. see Sherwood 

Linton Metalware.

Livingstone & Doughty

Lloyd Pascal & Co., LP & Co.

Loach and Clarke, brassfounders, Birmingham,

W. R. Loftus, London.

Lombard,  (Derricourt Brassware)

Henry Loveridge & Co. 

Lucas, Joseph Lucas & Sons.  

Lunenberg Foundry & Engineering Limited

Lutwyche   

LW.

AM.

A M S ( & Sons) unknown maker's mark on a trivet.

MB unknown mark in shield on paper knife

MC unknown mark on candlestick

May and Padmore (M & P)

Mandarin Ware – see A J Harrison

Manning Bowman.

Maple & Co.

H N Marshall

'J.M.'   Initials used by John Marston of Wolverhampton.

Martins, Guernsey. 

'P. M.' Made in New Jersey.  Information welcome.

MB – information needed.

MC - information needed.

McKechnie Bros 

Richard Mead 

Messenger….

Mewco Metal Products, Australia

MG information needed.

Midland Lighting Co. 

Miller, Edward & Co. USA.

Minneapolis Handicraft Guild

Moffat's, Birmingham & Scotland

Monitor Engineering & Oil Appliances Ltd

Monkeys, Wise

Moorgate (Birmingham) Ltd (Gunga Din™) 

Mora, Sweden

Morewood & Co.

Mundu

Muntz Metal Co.,  Birmingham.

Mysto

Nekrassoff,

‘Neptune’ mark – see J. Sankey & Sons 

Nesco, USA.

Nestor, Birmingham

Newlyn Copper     

W. Newman & Sons, Birmingham.

Newton Jones & Willis, later Jones & Willis

Newton Shakespeare & Co. Birmingham, 'Garrison' Trademark

NM – information needed.

NMK, unidentified German mark.

Norseman Reproductions.     Robert Normansell Ltd,

Northland Reps, Bloomington, MN  USA

Nottingham Electroplating Co,

Olbury information needed.

Oregon Brass Works, USA

Orme Evans & Co  (O E Co)

Ottone   Italian for 'Brass'. 

W. Ottway & Sons, London,

J Ouenault, Jersey. 

Parker-Hale, Birmingham.

Josiah Parkes & Sons Ltd.

S Parkes & Sons, Birmingham

Paye & Baker.   

J. R. Pearson, Hardware, Birmingham

John Pearson, 

Pearson-Page-Jewsbury 

Peerage Brass 

Joseph (Joe) Pengelly  

Penney, W & C

Period Brass Co.  Birmingham.

Richard Perry & Co., Wolverhampton

J W Pickavant & Co Ltd, Birmingham,

J. W. Pole.

J & F Poole Ltd,  Hayle, Cornwall

Powell and Hanmer, P & H Ltd.,  Birmingham.

PPJ mark - see Pearson Page Jewsbury

E Preston & Sons, Birmingham

RVP.

AR  (or AP?)

J Rabone & Co., Birmingham

Rainsford & Lynes, Birmingham

Regal Buttons, Birmingham.

Revere Copper

Rhodesian Copper Products 

Riley Osborn Mfg. Co., Newark,

Rippingills Albion Lamp Co., Ltd., Birmingham

Rochester Lamp Company

Rochester Stamping Co.

Royal Rochester 

W. Rogers,

Royal Sable 

Roycroft

De La Rue, Guernsey. 

Ruskin's Ceramic Cabochons

Russell, John Russell & Co. (anchor trade mark)

Russian marks.

Salter, G & Co.,

Joseph Sankey & Son

Saxton Inc., Los Angeles

Scovill Manufacturing Co, Waterbury, Conn.  USA

SH, (or HS) mark.

W. Shackleton of Kendal

John Shaw & Sons Ltd, Wolverhampton. 

Sherwood Ltd. 

Jas Shoolbred,  Tottenham Court Road, London.

Edwin Showell & Sons, Ltd., Birmingham,

Sigg, Switzerland,

Skultuna

Smith and Wright Ltd., Birmingham, buttons.

Soho Brassfoundry, Australia.

Soutterware -  William Soutter & Sons.

S S & Co.

Sperryn & Co., Ltd., Birmingham,

Spraygen - see R Harris & Co.

Spring, Switzerland

Squire -see Maurice Davis and Heaps

P H Stacye, coppersmith.

Stamping & Spinning Co. 

Stanley London

SW - Stanley Works, Connecticut

W F Stanley & Co..

Stickley, Gustav.

Stockli  Switzerland.

Stone, James Henry, Birmingham, brassfounder.

Storrar, Chester.

J N Summerfield.

DSCG Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild

G T Sutterly,  USA

Swan Brand - see Bulpitts

T & Co.  - see Townshend

HT & S (Sons). information needed.

Tagus (Portugal)

Tamco - Talboys Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Birmingham 

Taylor & Thomas     

Taylorcraft  Boston.

Temple & Crook, London.

W H Thomas,  Birmingham.

E Thomason, Birmingham.

Tiffany, New York and London

Tilly (International) 

S Timmins & Co, Birmingham.

Enoch Tonks & Sons Ltd., Willenhall, Black Country, West Midlands.

Tonks, William & Sons,  (WT&S) Birmingham.

Townshend & Co., Ltd.  Birmingham.

Townson & Coxson

John Turner & Co.,  (J.T. & Co.)  Birmingham.

C Twigg of Birmingham  'BuFlame' ™.

Utah Copper 

Universal WoodWorking Co., UWW

Van Erp, Dirk.

Valor   

Varley, Coalpit Lane, Nottingham

Vaughton Bros.

Veritas 

Vermont Copper

Viking Copper

Garanti Villedieu, Normandy, France  

Virginia Metalcrafters

Vivian & Son

WB Co Williams Bros. & Co.

JW & S  (and Son)

Wafax (Wades of Halifax)

Waldow

Hugh Wallis

Walker,  Joseph Walker & Co. (JW/B)

Fred Walton & Co., Wolverhampton,

T B B Water

Clive Waters, brassfounder, Birmingham.

Weba, Webaware.

Weeda, Tasmania. 

Weidlich Brothers Mfg. Connecticut. 

Welco. 

Wellens Ware.

Welsbach 

William Soutter & Sons Co.,

Williams Bros    (WB Co.)

Williamsburg,  Colonial

Willis & Bates, Vapalux Brand

Wilton Metal Works Company,

Winn & Co.  Birmingham

Winward, Birmingham,

J. Wippell & Co. Ltd., Exeter

WMF  Würtemburgische Machin Fabrik

Wolverhampton Manufacturers 

Wolverine Brass Works, Grand Rapids

Wright & Butler

WS .

WT&S  William Tonks & Sons

Yaad,.

Yale     

Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co. 

Ystad