Teapot with a beaver hallmark

British Silver Reading Silver Hallmarks
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Hi all,

I’m trying to find the origins and metal of this teapot I have acquired. I’d love some assistance with reading these hallmarks.

Thank you :slight_smile:
teapot hallmark small.jpg

2

This is the actual teapot
teapot small.jpg

3

Your teapot is electroplated - manufactured by J Sherwood & Sons, a Birmingham company. It would have been made sometime before about 1895 when the use of the crown symbol on electroplate was outlawed as being potentially confused with a Sheffield silver hallmark.