✅ SOLVED Help to identify this mark on a silver serving piece.

[MPRVVA1]

Hello,

Can someone help me identify what this mark means? It is on a serving piece. If this should be in a different forum please point me in the right direction. Thanks.


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[ARC]

I notice you have been a member here since 2009... and this is your FIRST posting... OR comment.

No biggie... but I also noticed your pictures did not work.

Try reposting them please.

 

[ARC]

Not sure but just a shot from the hip I think the maker was Elkington & Co... Birmingham ? ?

Someone who gets into digging into makers marks will be along shortly.

 

[MPRVVA1]

Thanks

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

This won't help, but all I have......

 

[Red-Coat]

Yep… AARC is quire right. Those are the marks for Elkington & Co of Birmingham, England and for the period from 1842-1864. The Gothic letters “E M & Co” at the left are for it’s change of name to Elkington, Mason & Co between 1842 and 1861 but with the mark still being used for a few years after that. The letter ‘R’ is their date letter for 1856, which was their own system (not aligned to Birmingham hall mark date letters and not in the same format).

These are electroplate marks, not silver hallmarks. Elkington was a pioneer of electroplating following its patent for a new process in 1838.

 

[MPRVVA1]

Yep… AARC is quire right. Those are the marks for Elkington & Co of Birmingham, England and for the period from 1842-1864. The Gothic letters “E M & Co” at the left are for it’s change of name to Elkington, Mason & Co between 1842 and 1861 but with the mark still being used for a few years after that. The letter ‘R’ is their date letter for 1856, which was their own system (not aligned to Birmingham hall mark date letters and not in the same format).

These are electroplate marks, not silver hallmarks. Elkington was a pioneer of electroplating following its patent for a new process in 1838.

Thanks! Wish it was silver, but glad to hear it is old.