CHAWNER & CO (GEORGE WILLIAM ADAMS)

successors to
WILLIAM CHAWNER II - MARY CHAWNER - MARY CHAWNER & CO
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MARKS - HALLMARKS - HISTORY

The business was founded in 1815 by William Chawner II who was apprenticed to William Fearn in 1797.
Free in in 1804 he entered his first mark as spoonmaker in 1808 in partnership with William Eley and William Fearn.
The partnership was dissolved c. 1814 and William Chawner II entered his first mark alone in 1815. After his death (1834) the business was continued by his widow Mary (née Burwash).
Later, Mary Chawner took into partnership (1840) her son-in-law George William Adams (husband of her daughter Mary Ann), who, after her retirement (or death) managed the business as Chawner & Co and remained sole partner until 1883. In this year Chawner & Co was sold to Holland, Aldwinkle & Slater (1883-1922, when the firm was absorbed by Francis Higgins & Son Ltd).
Chawner was the most important manufacturer of spoons and forks in London and participated to the 1851 Great Exhibition and to the 1862 International Exhibition. Their pattern book (c.1875) is the reference for naming many of the patterns manufactured in the Victorian era.
Chawner & Co were supplier of important retail houses as Hunt & Roskell, R.& S. Garrard & Co, Elkington & Co (in most cases they overstruck the pieces with their own mark).

CHRONOLOGY:
William Chawner II 1815-1834
Mary Chawner 1834-1840
Mary Chawner & Co 1840
Chawner & Co 1840 - 1883
sold to Holland, Aldwinkle & Slater 1883
absorbed by Francis Higgins & Son Ltd in 1922

STERLING SILVER HALLMARKS
William Eley I, Williamd Fearn, William Chawner II: London 1810 mark William Eley I, Williamd Fearn, William Chawner II (mark entered 1808)
William Eley I, Williamd Fearn, William Chawner II: London 1820 mark William Chawner II (mark entered 1820)
William Eley I, Williamd Fearn, William Chawner II: London 1833 mark William Chawner II (mark entered 1833)
Mary Chawner: London 1833 mark Mary Chawner (mark entered 14.4.1834)
Mary Chawner: London 1838 mark Mary Chawner (mark entered 1835)
Mary Chawner & George William Adams for Mary Chawner & Co: London 1840 mark Mary Chawner & George William Adams for Mary Chawner & Co (mark entered 1840)
George William Adams for Chawner & Co: London 1846 mark George William Adams for Chawner & Co (mark entered 1840)
George William Adams for Chawner & Co: London 1877 mark George William Adams for Chawner & Co (many similar marks entered 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1872, 1873, 1877, 1881)







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