Silverplate or Sheffield plate and ... who's the daddy?

I found the sugar and creamer in a local ReStore. The mark is a cannon and according to the sources I found and the smalls person at the ReStore saw it could be Wilkin of Sheffield or Charles Green Co of Birmingham. There's also a U stamp, possibly a pattern marker. Both of those would be silverplate. But the pieces weigh a ton. I figured the piece paid was close to scrap for the copper these days.

 

It's worn back to the copper in some spots, so there's no point in testing it.

 

Silverplate on copper and in some cases reproductions of "old Sheffield plate."

Charles Green of Birmingham

http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverGdue.html#CGREEN

 

Sorry I could not find anything related to a "Wilkin" of Sheffield.

 

http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverWZdue.html

Same mark, different name. I don't think either's a dead match for this one. The only writing on the bottom is the U and the cannon's not a match.

 

Maybe @MrNate knows whose cannon is whose?

 

Your mark, as well as the two shown on silvercollection.it, look like Charles Green to me, there are usually a good number of variants in manufacturer's marks...


From Woodhead's 'Trademarks on Base-metal Tableware (1991), citation: 'White's Hardware Trademarks' (1892):




~Cheryl

 

Possible. I guess it's a later copy of earlier work.