TOBACCONISTS

PIPE MAKERS

PIPE MOUNTERS

SILVER HALLMARKS A pipe for tobacco smoking typically consists of a small chamber (the bowl) for the combustion of the tobacco to be smoked and a thin stem (shank) that ends in a mouthpiece (the bit).

The stem needs a long channel of constant position and diameter running through it, and this is difficult to carve out of a pre-existing block. Because it is molded rather than carved, clay may make up the entire pipe or just the bowl, but most other materials have stems made separately and detachable.

Often a silver band is used to connect the bowl to the detachable stem. In the UK, sterling silver spigots (or ferrules) bear Assay Office's hallmarks which allow to date the pipes and obtain information about their maker, mounter or importer.

In most cases these objects weren't presented to hallmarking by silversmiths but by importers, retailers and pipe mounters who were identified in Assay Office's ledgers as "tobacconists", "pipe makers" or "pipe mounters".

The tobacconist is an expert dealer in tobacco in various forms and related accessories as pipes, lighters, matches, pipe cleaners, pipe tampers, ashtrays, cigar cutters or "novelties".

TOBACCONISTS - PIPE MANUFACTURERS - PIPE MOUNTERS

PIPES, TOBACCO, CIGARS AND FANCY GOODS IMPORTERS IN BRITISH ASSAY OFFICES

MAKER'S AND SPONSOR'S MARK: A A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

BIR=Birmingham CHE=Chester DUB=Dublin LON=London MARK NAME ASSAY OFFICE DATE TRADE A A A in script Arthur Angus ANDERSON - Glasgow CHE 1898 tobacco and cigar merchant AB into a lozenge Arthur BROMAGE - Manchester CHE 1912 pipe mounter A.B into an oval Andrew BORLAND - Belfast CHE 1897 tobacconist AB & C into an oval Albert BAKER & CO LTD - London CHE 1899 tobacconists AB & C o into an oblong hexagon Albert BAKER & CO (1898) LTD - London

BIR

LON

1910 tobacco, cigar, cigarette and pipe manufacturers AC into an oval Richard CARTER trading as A. CARTER - Manchester CHE 1897 tobacconist



A.C into an oblong rectangle Alexander CAMERON - Glasgow CHE 1900 pipe mounter A.D into a rectangle

Auguste DREYFUS trading as DREYFUS & CO - London

CHE

LON 1885

. pipe manufacturers AD without frame

Auguste DREYFUS trading as DREYFUS & CO - London BIR

LON 1908

1902 pipe & stick mounter A.D over J.D without frame

























Auguste DELACOUR Joseph DELACOUR trading as DELACOUR BROTHERS LTD - London

BIR

LON

1909 tobacco pipe manufacturers



A.D into a lozenge

NOT IDENTIFIED BIR . . AF & C o inside a chamfered rectangle Adolph FRANKAU & CO LTD - London

BIR

LON

1902 gold & silver workers A.G into an oval Alfred GURNEY - Liverpool CHE 1898 tobacconist AHL into a lozenge Alfred Howarth LANDLESS - Manchester CHE 1895 pipe mounter AJN into an oval Alfred Jerrod NATHAN - London CHE 1895 tobacconist and fancy goods AK into an oval Aaron KUIT - Manchester CHE

BIR 1891

1900 tobacconist A.L into an oval Alfred LEWIS - London CHE 1899 tobacco pouch manufacturer A.N into an oval Augusta NORTH - Preston CHE 1907 pipe manufacturer AO without frame

Adolphe OPPENHEIMER for A.OPPENHEIMER & CO - London

LON 1902 pipe mounter AP without outline

Adolph POSENER trading as Adolph POSENER & Co - London CHE

LON 1896

1885 pipe manufacturer, tobacconist and fancy goods dealers AP & Co into an oblong rectangle Adolph POSENER trading as POSENER & Co - London CHE 1910 pipe and fancy goods manufacturers ART into an oval Alfred Richard TAYLOR - Ilkeston CHE 1900 tobacconist A & S into an oval Andrew ANDERSON trading as ANDERSON & SON - Glasgow CHE 1900 tobacco an cigar importers AW into an oval Arthur WATTS - Northampton CHE 1899 tobacconist A.W into a lozenge Amos WHEATLEY - Manchester CHE 1899 pipe mounter AWB into an oblong oval EVANS CONCINNUM METAL WORKS LTD - London CHE 1922 tobacconist supplier AWP into an oval Arthur William PAYNE - Newport Monmouth CHE 1907 tobacconist AW.P into an oblong oval Arthur William PAYNE - Newport Monmouth CHE 1908 tobacconist



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