1884 Hallmarked London 12 Piece Forks & Knives EH

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1884 Hallmarked London 12 Piece Forks & Knives EH. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail in the lower 48 states.
18.45 oz total weight. 6 forks, 6 knives.
The Hallmark on the knives is duplicated on the blades - these are not stainless steel with sterling handles (in 1884, stainless steel was more expensive than gold, so that's not a big surprise).
The upper case I datemark corresponds with 1884, which matches Queen Victoria's monarchal bust. The city mark indicates these were crafted in London. And the initials of the silversmith corresponds with William Hutton & Sons (EH - Edward Hutton).
A little about the silversmith:
William Hutton & Sons Ltd
William Hutton & Sons Ltd wasn’t always classified as a limited company, before 1893 the silverware company that became William Hutton & Sons Ltd started life as simply William Hutton. It was in 1800 when William Hutton established his silverware firm in Birmingham, which later moved to Sheffield in 1832 when it became clear that the firm was well and truly active in the silversmith industry.
After William’s death, the business was continued in the same style by his son William Carr Hutton, the name was subsequently changed to William Hutton & Son. This form of the business was a partnership between William Carr Hutton and his son Herbert Hutton. In 1863, two years before William Carr Hutton died, a showroom in London was opened.
William Carr Hutton died in 1865, and around 1870 Herbert’s older brothers James Edward Hutton and Robert Hutton joined the business, the name was then changed to William Hutton & Sons to match the new circumstances.
It was in 1893 that the business acquired Rupert Favell & Co, a manufacturer silversmith based in London. That same year the company became limited- William Hutton & Sons Ltd.
In 1902 William Hutton & Sons Ltd acquired
Creswick & Co
, a silverware manufacturers based in Sheffield. With this acquisition William Hutton & Sons Ltd were able to use Creswick & Co’s crossed arrow marks.
In 1930 William Hutton & Sons Ltd became bankrupt- failed as a company. In the same year the firm was then absorbed by
James Dixons & Sons
.
Major world events in 1884: listed below. Quite a bit of interesting things have come and gone since these were first crafted.
1884 Historical Events in 1884
Jan 4 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
Jan 4 The Fabian Society is founded in London.
Jan 8 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
Jan 18 General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
Jan 18 Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom
Jan 19 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" premieres in Paris
Composer
Jules Massenet
Jan 26 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
Feb 1 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
Feb 7 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
Feb 18 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
Feb 18 Police seize all copies of tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
Feb 19 "Enigma Outbreak" of over 60 tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill hundreds, if not over a thousand (hence the "enigma") people
Feb 26 British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
Mar 8 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano Suite
Mar 8 Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
Suffragette
Susan B. Anthony
Mar 12 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
Mar 13 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months
Mar 13 US adopts Standard Time
Mar 17 John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight at Otay, California
Mar 27 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
Mar 28 46th Grand National: Ted Wilson aboard 10/1 shot Voluptuary wins by 4 lengths from Frigate
Apr 2 London prison for debtors closed
Apr 10 US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
Apr 20 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"
256th Pope
Leo XIII
Apr 21 Potters Field reopened as Madison Park
Apr 22 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mths)
Apr 22 US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Apr 24 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta
May 1 Construction begins on Chicago's 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
May 1 Catcher Moses Walker is acknowledged as the first African-American to play major league baseball joining the Toledo Blue Stockings
May 1 Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
May 13 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms in New York
May 14 Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
May 16 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
May 17 Alaska becomes a US territory
May 19 Ringling Brothers circus premieres
May 22 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
May 23 12th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Knight of Ellerslie wins in 2:39.5
May 24 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
May 26 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 v England XI in 4 hours
May 29 1st steam cable trams start in highgateMay 31 Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
Jun 3 John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chairJun 4 18th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
Jun 5 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
Jun 16 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
Jun 24 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
Jul 3 Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation AverageJul 4 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
Jul 4 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris. The Statue of Liberty, New York
Jul 5 German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon
Jul 5 US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
Jul 10 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out
Jul 15 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 4 consecutive Wimbledon titles for William Renshaw; beats Herbert Lawford 6-0, 6-4, 9-7
Jul 19 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maud Watson becomes inaugural female champion by beating her sister Lillian Watson 6–8, 6–3, 6–3Jul 21 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's
Jul 27 The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system
Jul 29 Society of Independent Artists founded in Paris by Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, Post-Impressionist Painter
Jul 30 Nonpareil Dempsey [John Edward Kelly] fights George Fulljames, possibly the 1st middleweight fight with boxing gloves
Aug 2 Dutch Queen Emma appointed regentAug 5 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)
Aug 7 Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)
Aug 11 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Aust
Aug 12 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval
Aug 27 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears makes it 4 straight US singles titles; beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2
Aug 28 First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota. It was taken in 1884 by F.N. Robinson
Aug 28 MLB pitcher Mickey Welsh makes record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the 1st 9 men he facesSep 4 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
Sep 10 Congressman John R. Lynch presides over Republican National Convention
Sep 20 6.2 mile Arlberg railroad tunnel completed in Austria
Sep 20 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
Sep 23 American Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine, the beginning of data processing
Sep 24 Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC
Sep 26 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
Oct 3 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Jack Simpson wins in windy conditions by 4 strokes from fellow Scots Douglas Rolland and Willie FernieOct 6 Naval War College forms in Newport, Rhode Island
Oct 13 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude
Oct 14 George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. Founder of the Eastman Kodak Company
George Eastman
Oct 22 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
Oct 22 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series
Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball championOct 22 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
Oct 25 1st "World Championship" Baseball Series, Polo Grounds, NYC: Providence Grays (NL) beat NY Mets (American Association), 12-2 in 6 innings for 3 game sweep; game abandoned because of bitter cold
Oct 27 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC
Nov 1 Gaelic Athletic Association is established in a meeting at Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary; Clare teacher Michael Cusack is credited as founder; objective to promote Irish sport & games
Nov 4 Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G. Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term (only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms)
Nov 6 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New GuineaNov 6 Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
Nov 8 German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Nov 15
European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers "Scramble for Africa"
Nov 17
Cops arrest boxer
John L. Sullivan
in his 2nd round for being "cruel"
Nov 20 - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
Nov 25 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
Dec 1 American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
Dec 1 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"
Dec 6 Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Washington, D.C.
Dec 9 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
Dec 10 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
Dec 12 1st Test match played at the Adelaide OvalDec 16 Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free StateDec 19 Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free StateDec 24 Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free StateDec 27 Netherlands recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
Music Premiere
Dec 30 Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
Composer
Anton Bruckner
Dec 30 William Morris, Eleanor Marx, and others establish the Socialist League, a revolutionary organization in the UK