THE DIRECTORY OF AUSTRALIA SILVERSMITHS
MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF AUSTRALIAN SILVER
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SILVERSMITH'S INFORMATION
ALLEN SAMUEL GEOFFREY
Samuel Geoffrey Allen - Perth		 Western Australia, Perth
born at Mt Barker WA in 1924. He trained in Fine Arts in Sydney 1948-52, then returned to WA and exhibited as a painter and taught art in a secondary school. During this period he taught himself jewellery making and silversmithing before opening his own shop 1967-1990. He continued working from a home workshop in Perth, 1990 - 2000 when he passed
ANGUS & COOTE LTD
Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney, sterlin silver mark Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney: Perfection trademark Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney: Perfection trademark		 New South Wales, Sydney
Founded in 1895 by William Angus, a watchmaker, and Edmund J. Coote, a working jeweller. Starting off as a retail concern, they appear to have turned to manufacturing following the death of William Angus in 1902, and were in production by 1905. By the late 1920s, Angus & Coote had developed their "Rundle" range of finely crafted table silverware: tea and coffee services, soup tureens, salvers, trays, plus candelabra. The hollow-ware was produced in sterling silver and in E.P.N.S., whilst matching flatware and cutlery were available. "Rundle" was produced until the mid 1970s.
They acquired the Sutton Electroplate Company in the early 1920's and Perfection Plate in 1960. Trademarks SUTTON, RUNDLE and PERFECTION.
Angus & Coote Ltd, Sydney marks Sutton Electroplate Company and Perfection Plate marks
ARMFIELD George H.
ARMFIELD George H.		 Victoria, Collingwood
active 1870s/1880s




HALLMARKS OF ENGLISH SILVER - MAKER'S MARK IDENTIFICATION
BRITISH TOWN MARKS AND DATE LETTERS
AUSTRALIA AND ITS SILVER
A BRIEF HISTORY
1841 map of Australia Colony
Australia in the 19th century was made up of six separate colonies, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia, South Australia (including, at this time, also the Northern Territories).
In term of working silversmiths only three colonies supported any number of craftsmen, namely South Wales capital, Sydney, Victoria, capital Melbourne and South Australia capital, Adelaide.
In the first half of the 19th century inhabitants of Australia were few tenths of thousands and pre 1850 Australian silver by comparison to colonial silver in general must be considered very rare.
Most working silversmiths with retail business carried imported silver or plated items as current stock and locally produced items were manufactured only to fulfill immediate orders (as presentation trophies) when the waiting time to order pieces from England was too long.
No form of official mark or date letter system was introduced into the hallmarking of Australian silver.
Early Australian silversmiths marked their objects with their full name or initials and imitations of English hallmarks as leopard's heads, lions and anchors.
In 1988 was formed the Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia. A voluntary system of marking was introduced (maker's mark, standard mark, guild mark and date letter).





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