Makers

Baccarat

Baccarat 1734 - to present. In 1734 King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in the town of Baccarat in the Lorraine region in Eastern france. Upto 1816 production consisted of window panes, mirrors and stoneware. Then in 1816...

Bagley Glass

Bagley Glass 1871-1975. Also Bagley Glass and Co. Bagley's glass began as a bottle making factory in Yorkshire England. It's heyday was between the two world wars 1918-1939. It went on to make a wide range of inexpensive domestic glassware...

Barbedienne

Ferdinand Barbedienne Founded in Paris in 1838 by Ferdinand Barbedienne and Achille Collas. Makers of bronze statues. Achille Collas was the inventor of a machine that would mechanically reduce statues. Together they started a business selling...

Barker Ellis

Barker Ellis silver, Birmingham England. Silversmiths. Manufacturer of silver, silver plate and electroplated ware dating back to 1801, it is now one of the oldest silversmiths and electroplaters in Birmingham. Barker Ellis & Co Ellis-Barker...

Barker Brothers | Silversmiths

Barker Brothers | Silversmiths - Birmingham, England (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Barker Bros (1896)(1927) Silver Hallmark BB Herbert Edward Barker & Frank Ernest Barker (1911)(1928) Silver Hallmark HEB over...

Barnard | Silversmiths

Barnard | Silversmiths - London (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Rebecca Emes & Edward Barnard (1808)(1827) Silver Hallmark RE over EB Edward, Edward Jnr, John & William Barnard (1832)(1841) Silver Hallmark EE...

Bausch and Lomb

Bausch and Lomb - Optics manufacturing. Established by optician John Bausch and financier Henry Lomb in 1853 in Rochester, New York. Monocles, Glasses, Photographic Lenses, Microscopes, Telescopes, Projectors, Medical Instruments. Now a global...

Belleek

Belleek pottery Ltd is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh in what was to become Northern Ireland. The factory produces porcelain that is characterised by its thinness...

Benham & Froud

Benham & Froud coppersmith and general metal workers. c1855-1924. In 1785 John Kepp set up as a coppersmith and brazier in Chandos Street, London. They adopted the mark of the orb because they had made the cross on the dome of St Pauls Cathedral in...

Berlin Porcelain

Berlin porcelain -The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin. (KPM) Founded by King Frederick II of Prussia (known as Frederick the Great) in 1763. Before this two other attempts had been made to establish a porcelain factory. The first attempt was made...

Beswick

J.W. Beswick was a pottery manufacturer, founded in 1892 by James Wright Beswick and his sons. John and Gilbert in Longton Stoke on Trent, they are chiefly known for producing high quality porcelain figurines such as farm animals and Beatrix Potter...

Betjemann

Betjemann & Sons - George Betjemann and his two sons George William Betjemann and John Betjemann. Innovative cabinet and box makers that featured their own Betjemann patent mechanisms. The company was located in London and ran from the mid 19th...

Biedermeier

Biedermeier (1815-1848) - A German style of furniture design covering the period 1815 to 1848. The utilitarian design incorporated clean lines and minimal decoration. The simple lines of the Biedermeier style owes much to the simple lines of Georgian...

Blangy

Blangy - French Clockmaker 1930s Art Deco clock manufacturer.

Bohemian Glass

Bohemian Glass Glass made in the region of Bohemia - part of the Czech republic formerly Czechoslovakia. It has a long history in glass making, due to the natural resources found in the countryside. Bohemian crystal became famous for its excellent...

Bramin of Denmark

Danish furniture designer and manufacturer in Bramming Denmark. Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s they produced a wide range of furniture representative of the Danish mid century era for the home and office. Bramin worked with many respected...

Bretby Pottery

Bretby Pottery,Bretby Art Pottery 1882-1996. Founded by Henry Tooth and William Ault, their pottery was in Woodville Derbyshire England. The company used the trade names Wescontree Ware and Candy Ware. The famous sunburst trade mark was registered...

British Rail

Broadway & Co

Broadway & Co. - Birmingham Silversmiths Founded by William Benjamin Broadway during the reign of Queen Victoria. circa 1900. They make a wide range of silverware including tableware, candlesticks, photo frames, christening gifts, napkin rings,...

Brook & Son (silvermaker)

Brook & Son, Edinburgh Silversmiths. Registered 1891. office 87 George Street, Edinburgh.

Brynmawr Furniture Makers Ltd

Brynmawr Furniture Makers Ltd was set up in Wales by local quakers in the 1920s as an attempt to relieve the severe economic depression. Established as a source of employment for local people in Brynmawr Wales at the Gwalia works. Their furniture...

Bulova

Bulovas is a luxury manufacturing company of watches and clocks. It has its headquarters in Woodside, Queens, New York City.

Buren

Buren of Switzerland - Watchmaker and Clockmaker. Buren clocks and watches. Founded in 1898 by H Williamson ltd a london company in the Swiss town of Buren. Here they produced pocket watches and table clocks. The Buren name continued thru to 1972...

Burleigh Ware

The Staffordshire town of Burslem has long been associated with Burleigh Ware founded in 1862 by Mr William Leigh and Mr Frederick Rathbone Burgess. Under the business name of Burgess and Leigh.

Burmantofts

Burmantofts pottery was the common trading name of a manufacturer of ceramic pipes and construction materials named after the Burmantofts district of Leeds, England. The business began in 1859 when fine clay was discovered in a coal mine owned by...

Charles Boyton | Silver Maker

Charles Boyton | London Silver Makers Marks (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Charles Boyton (1892)(1900) - Silver Hallmark CB Charles Boyton II (1881)(1895) - Silver Hallmark Charles Boyton & Son (1898)() -...

Francesco Bartolozzi

Francesco Bartolozzi - Artist & Engraver. Francesco bartolozzi was born in Florence in 1727 and was a artist and engraver. He lived in London for nearly fourty years and became engraver to the King and became a founding member of the Royal Academy....

Franz Bergman

Franz Bergman Bronzes. In 1860 Franz Bergman opened a small foundry in Vienna, Austria and in 1900 his son Franz Xavier Bergman opened a new factory. They produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze oriental, erotic and animal figures, the...

George Booth

George Booth silversmith, Aberdeen Scotland. Active 1800-1825. Items of his we have seen are, spoons. George Booth G.Booth and Son

Hester Bateman

Hester Bateman was an English silversmith who successfully ran her family business for thirty years following the death of her husband. She took over the family business and registered her first sponsor's mark at the Goldsmith's Hall in 1761. Her...

J.W. Benson

J.W. Benson Ltd of London - Watchmakers, Jewellers & Silversmiths. Watchmakers. 4-5 Horseshoe Court Ludgate Hill London. The Benson family had been watchmakers since 1749. In 1847 James William Benson and his brother Samuel Suckley Benson went into...

James Barber, George Cattle & William North

James Barber, George Cattle & William North - Silvermakers in new York, America.

John Batson

John Batson London silversmith. 42-43, Brewer Street, Soho, London. Founded by John Batson in 1850, 24, Little Pulteney Street Soho. Originally a cabinet maker that went into silver. After his sons joined the firm, the name was restyled to John...

John Bettridge

John Bettridge, Birmingham silversmith. John Bettridge, a highly prized silversmith who specialised in small silver boxes and vinaigrettes. Marks seen for 1817-1834 maker of caddy spoons, decanter labels, flatware and vinaigrettes.

Kosta Boda

Kosta Boda Glass. Glass manufacturers in Sweden. The glassworks in Kosta was founded in 1742 in the Swedish province of Småland. Since 1898, art and crystal glass for everyday use has been produced under the brand of Orrefors.

Murrle Bennett

Founded by Ernst Murrle and J.B Bennett. Jewellery manufacturers London. 1896-1914. They are particularly known as manufacturers of Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts jewellery with Celtic designs. They were sold at Liberty and Co. and collaborated...

Peter and Ann Bateman

Peter and Ann Bateman - London Silvermakers (1791-1799). Peter Bateman was the son of Hester and Jonathan Bateman. Ann was the sister in law to Peter. There work was in the Neoclassical style. Items made by them which we have seen are sugar...

Peter, Anne & William Bateman

Peter, Anne & William Bateman - London silvermsiths. London silversmiths 1800 - 1805, Bateman family of silversmiths. Makers of domestic products such as flatware, tea and coffee pots, salvers and sauceboats which retained classic design features.

Roberts & Belk

Silversmiths: Roberts & Belk Roberts & Belk Ltd Samuel Roberts & Charles Belk

S. Blanckensee & Sons Ltd.

S. Blanckensee & Son, Birmingham Silver maker Founded in Bristol in 1826 by Solomon Blanckensee a dealer in jewellery. After moving to Birmingham his firm grew rapidly in size and with the variety of its products. They had few rivals in the...

Synyer and Beddoes | Silversmiths

Synyer and Beddoes | Silversmiths - Birmingham, England. (Note. Dates in brackets are the date of listed items by the maker) Harry Synyer & Charles Joseph Beddoes (1908) Silver Hallmark S*B Synyer & Beddoes

Thomas Bradbury | Silversmith

Thomas Bradbury, Thos Bradbury & Sons, Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd | Silversmiths - Sheffield

W.A.S. Benson

W.A.S. Benson - William Arthur Smith Benson was an English designer active in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Arts and Crafts Lighting and Metalware.

William Bateman

William Bateman I. London Silversmith 1774-1850. Bateman family of silversmiths. Maker of domestic products such as flatware, tea and coffee pots, salvers and sauceboats which retained classic design features. He was the son of Jonathan and Ann...

William Birch

William Birch Of High Wycombe - Furniture maker. According to family tradition Birch began chairmaking in the 1840s. William Birch was a chair maker and Arts and Crafts furniture designer. He became a major supplier of furniture to Libertys and Co...