MB57 POSTAL AUCTION WEIGHTS & SCALES
CORRECTIONS & ADDENDA
There are always a few typographic errors from the printed catalogue- sorry!
33 Should read Hayward not Haywood
181-183 - somehow we're 100 out - so should read W2573, W2574a, 2576a
186 Should read 22.6 mm
200 Should read W2683
204 Should read W2698
266 Should read: W1369, Shilling, D over XII reverse XII ctm. ewer and TG all incuse 17.8mm. 5.48gm. F TG= Thomas Garrat The Withers Plate Weight
361 estimate 12 (not 132!)
437 reserve 60, estimate 100 (not 10!)
482 stamped WS so Simmons Type 1 crown stamp
Furthermore, Mike Foster has sent in the following comments:
Lot 455 with the ‘W . B’ on the beam is not by William Blews. The maker mark on the poise and base is a ‘Simmons’ Type 1 crown (variant 1) used at the New John St. workshop. The ‘ . ’ found between the W and B is a distinguishing feature of Thomas Simmons rockers, found on those he made for himself with ‘T . S’, and those he made for some of his Retailers, which in this case he stamped with ‘W . B’ most likely for William Broomhall, book seller, stationer, printer, and broker of bank and canal shares, on Union St., Birmingham, from 1828 to 1835.
Interestingly William Blews did make rockers for Retailers, including J. Belcher and Son, book sellers, stationers, printers, 5 High St, Birmingham from 1823 to 1849, which Blews marked with his Blews maker mark crown and stamped with their ‘J. BELCHER’. Belcher and Son was a competitor of Broomhall. William Blews (and later ‘& Sons’) does not seem to have stamped any of his rockers with his name.