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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".
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TOBACCONISTS - PIPE MANUFACTURERS - PIPE MOUNTERS
PIPES, TOBACCO, CIGARS AND FANCY GOODS IMPORTERS
IN BRITISH ASSAY OFFICES
MAKER'S AND SPONSOR'S MARK: H
BIR=Birmingham CHE=Chester DUB=Dublin LON=London
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NAME |
ASSAY OFFICE |
DATE |
TRADE |
H.B into an oval | Henry BEAL - Walthamstow |
CHE | 1912 | briar pipe manufacturer |
H.B into a rectangular frame | Edwin Collier HARWOOD Thomas HARWOOD trading as HARWOOD BROTHERS - Liverpool |
CHE | 1901 | tobacconists and fancy goods dealers |
H.Bro without frame | Edwin Collier HARWOOD Thomas HARWOOD trading as HARWOOD BROTHERS - Liverpool |
CHE | 1902 | tobacconists and fancy goods dealers |
H.Bros into a rectangular frame | Edwin Collier HARWOOD Thomas HARWOOD trading as HARWOOD BROTHERS - Liverpool |
CHE | 1902 | importers of tobacconist goods |
H.Bros into a rectangular frame | Edwin Collier HARWOOD Thomas HARWOOD trading as HARWOOD BROTHERS - Liverpool |
CHE | 1902 | importers of tobacconist goods |
H & Co into an oval | Arthur John McCONNELL Charles Benjamin HALL Andrew James GRAY trading as HARRINGTON & CO - London |
CHE | 1898 | importers of tobacconists fancy goods |
HC inside a chamfered rectangle
 | H.COMOY & CO LTD - London
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. | . | briar pipe manufacturers (since 1825) |
H.C inside an exagon
 | Henry COMOY trading as H.COMOY & CO LTD - London
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BIRLON | .1914 | briar pipe manufacturers (since 1825) |
HDC into a rectangle | H.D. CROMPTON - Birmingham |
BIR | 1891 | pipe mounter |
H & F into a rectangle
| William Sydney HALL Edward Thurston DAVIES trading as HALL & FITZGERALD - Bristol
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CHE
BIR | 1901 | merchant of tobacconist s fancy goods |
HF without frame | Henry FARRER - Church |
CHE | 1906 | mounter and pipe repairer |
H.F into a rectangle | Herbert FERGUSON - Manchester |
CHE | 1896 | pipe mounter |
H.H without frame
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BIR | . | . |
HIGGS into an oblong oval | George HIGGS and Fred HIGGS trading as HIGGS BROTHERS - Lincoln |
CHE | 1897 | tobacconists |
HJI into an oval
| Harry James IVESON - London
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BIR
LON | .
1895 | pipe mounter |
HJN into an oval | Henry Jerrold NATHAN - London |
LON | 1905 | tobacconist and briar pipe exporter |
HK into an oval
| Henry KAUFMAN - London |
BIR
CHE
LON | .
1897
1912
| tobacconist and fancy goods manufacturer |
HK into an oblong oval | Henry KAUFMAN - London |
CHE | 1907 | tobacco pouch manufacturer |
H K into two separate squares | Henry KEMPSON - Birmingham |
BIR | 1892 | pipe mounter |
H&J into an oblong chamfered rectangle | HOLLINS & JACQUES - Birmingham |
BIR | 1889 | pipe mounter |
H & L into three separate squares | HEAVEN & LEWIS - Birmingham |
BIR | 1897 | pipe mounter |
HM into a rectangle | Henry Edward MEYER trading as J.L. MEYER, SONS & CO - London |
CHE | 1889c. | pipe merchant |
HM without frame | Henry Edward MEYER - London |
LON | 1886 | pipe merchant and importer |
H.M into an oval | Henry Edward MEYER - London |
CHE | 1905 | pipe merchant |
H.M without frame | Theodore TWIST trading as J.L. MEYER, SONS & CO - London |
CHE | 1897 | pipe merchant |
HM into an oval | Henry Edward MEYER - London |
CHE | 1899 | pipe importers |
HM into two squares | Henry MARSHALL - London |
CHE | 1896 | cigar case manufacturer |
HM into an oval | Henry E. MEYER - London |
CHE | 1891c. | pipe importer |
HM into a shield | Henry MARSHALL - London |
CHE | 1896 | cigar case manufacturer |
H.P into a rectangle | Henry PERKINS - London |
CHE | 1897 | pipe mounter |
H.P without frame | Henry PERKINS trading as Henry PERKINS & SONS |
LON | 1893 | pipe makers |
HP into a lozenge
| Henry PERKINS - London
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BIR | . | . |
HP&S into an oblong exagon
| Henry PERKINS & SONS Ltd- London
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LON | 1909 | mershaum pipe and case makers |
H&S into three separate squares (sides slightly rounded) | Francis Charles HAWKSFORD trading as Charles Singleby HAWKSFORD- Birmingham |
CHE
BIR | 1903
1906 | tobacconist
pipe mounters |
H&S without frame | HAWKSFORD & SON - Birmingham |
BIR | 1896 | pipe mounters |
H&S into three separate squares | HAWKSFORD & SON - Birmingham |
BIR | 1900 | pipe mounters |
H&S over H into a heart | William HART Herbert William HART trading as William HART & SON - Hull |
CHE | 1897 | importers of tobacconists fancy goods |
H.S over M.S without frame
| Maurice STRAUSS Henry SIMON - London
 | CHE | 1905 | tobacco pipe manufacturers |
HS over MS into a swastika frame
| Maurice STRAUSS Henry SIMON - London
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LON
CHE |
1914
| tobacco pipe manufacturers |
H.T into an oval | Harry TATTERSALL - Leeds |
CHE | 1909 | tobacco pipe mounter |
H.T without frame | Henry TONGUE - Birmingham |
CHE | 1898 | pipe mounter |
H & W into a rectangle
| Henry WARNER trading as HARVEY & WARNER - London
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LON | 1898 |
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