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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver, post: 2706118, member: 6202&quot;]I believe the item was made (sponsored if we are going to be precise about terms) by William Hutton and Sons Limited of Faringdon Road, London.</p><p><br /></p><p>Information courtesy of <a href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk</a>.&nbsp; (I would post a screenshot of the relevant entry but the Forum software is not cooperating right now.).</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Screenshot is posted in a separate reply below.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a long entry on the firm in Fallon: Marks of London Goldsmiths and Silversmiths 1837-1914. It was established by William Carr Hutton in 1872 and continued to exist until its goodwill was transferred to James Dixon and Sons in 1930. One of the descendants of the founder attained a Phd in Electrometallurgy, eventually becoming a Professor of Metallurgy at Cambridge University, where he researched methods of preventing silver from tarnishing. He also became eventually Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Company, London and died age 94 in 1970![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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