I would very much appreciate help in identifying a maker’s mark and proof/hall/other mark on a napkin ring. It belonged to my great grandfather William Barnes of Ashbourne, Derbyshire UK, and bears his initials WB. I shortly plan to give it to another one of his great grandchildren, a US citizen, now living in Colorado.
One of William Barnes sons emigrated to Concord Massachusetts in the early 1900s, Other children emigrated to Vancouver.
As the marks are not British, I am assuming they may be US marks, and that the napkin ring may have been sent from the US by his son, perhaps for a 60th or 80th birthday gift or similar. I do not think, from what I have found on the internet, that the marks are Canadian.
Can anyone help me please?
Many thanks
Nigel Aspdin
Derby, UK