Antique Solid Silver Baby Rattle Whistle George Unite Hallmark 1893 Birmingham

  

George Unite was born in Birmingham in 1798 to Samuel and Prudence Unite. He was apprenticed to Joseph Willmore in 1810. Through its agents George Groom (1852) and J. The firm entered sterling silver marks at Birmingham Assay Office (as Unite & Hilliard in 1825 and various marks from 1832 to 1928 as George Unite, George Unite & Sons, George Unite Sons & Lyde Ltd), London Assay Office 1886 and 1889: George R.

Unite, small worker, Chester Assay Office (1897 and 1898: Harry Lyde trading as George Unite & Sons), Sheffield Assay Office (1861) CHRONOLOGY.