I feel that every nuance of maker's marks on all olde English products have great significance in this time period. There is much information avaliable in our age of information, however much is lost. I am grateful to Neil for doing fine research at the drop of a hat and keeping this info circulating. He has great local resources and uses them most proficiently! The answer is surely out there. Stimulating the search will eventually yield the answer! I suppose this is what we are doing here! ;)