silver brush hallmark help

I did try to figure it out an got nowhere I'm sure someone here knows. To me it looks like a Bow with a W and maybe a whale?

 

Hard to see exactly what's going on in this mark, but how about looking at the Wendell Manufacturing Co mark seen here - https://sterlingflatwarefashions.com/silversmithslist-page/?send_alphabate=W

 

Nope But I love that site thank you for sharing that. I will try to get a better picture but it's so hard when i zoom in it gets so distorted

 

It's a Watson mark (crown-W-lion) - for future reference, IDs are almost always easier to make if a picture of the entire item is shown...

~Cheryl

 

LOL I tried to draw it. It's just driving me nuts because I have never seen that mark before. Although there are a lot I will probably never see but usually on brushs an vanity sets you see the same common ones.

 

I looked at Watson before none of the marks I seen of theirs matches it. I guess I better go back an look again.

 

Could this be it? https://www.replacements.com/silver-watson-7705-5-sterling-hollowware-hair-brush/p/120256831

~Cheryl

 

That is really close thank you for your help

 

There are usually variants in manufacturers' trademarks, sometimes many, and not all will appear in references, whether online or in print - I've seen this variant before, and it is a Watson mark, 1910+.

Posted the Replacements link just a minute after your image of the brush and mirror, so I didn't see it - it is the same pattern (7702 and 7705), which have plain backs, the linked piece (7705/5) has the added cartouche, yours (7702/8 and 7705/8) has additional engine-turned stripes...


~Cheryl