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Thanks! Yes, it does look like it could be the remnants of "W" before the "..ELL", so I bet it was some phrase of this sort.

Here's one that's apparently a "Crookes", but not any of the Crookes mentioned here. Rather an "S. Crookes".

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It's got a G.R. crown stamp, so likely that dates it to the 1820s. It...