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Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« on: Saturday 06 August 11 20:19 BST (UK) »
This Birmingham marked pendant belonged to my wife's grandfather (the L.W.A. inscription is his initials). The engraved date matches the hallmark (1913) - and I've looked up the maker (William James Dingley)

I don't know who S.R.L. is.......

I also don't know is whether the registered number on the engraved side will identify the organisation (Masonic? - there's no obvious symbols) or whether it's just a manufacturer's pattern number.

Any help would be much appreciated

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 06 August 11 20:34 BST (UK) »
To answer my own question!........it's a pattern number :(

The solution was found by looking at similar items on Ebay.

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 06 August 11 22:32 BST (UK) »
Well it is Birmingham, Sterling  Silver, and the O date letter at the end of the hallmark is for 1913.
 Hope  that is of help to you.
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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 06 August 11 23:19 BST (UK) »
Sorry--- I rushed in there before  I`d properly  read  you post !Viktoria.


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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 07 August 11 00:05 BST (UK) »
Could S.R.L. be the initials of the person who gave it to L.W.A.?
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 07 August 11 00:29 BST (UK) »


    The S.R.L.  may?or may not represent some organisation

   or sports that he was involved with.

    Do you know of his activities around that time and where he

    lived?    For example Southampton Rugby League.

     I've got one for example that is inscribed B.A.F.U. 1933/34

    It would appear to be related to the Nelson League Association

        So it's just a guess that the S.R.L. may represent something other than a person.

        Tomkin

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 07 August 11 00:52 BST (UK) »
It wouldn't be a wedding (or similar) gift would it? With the SRL being the wife's initials?  :-\

So you know of any significant events that occurred in the family in 1913? Have you checked local newspapers in case there is mention of an award of some sort to your wife's grandfather?

It doesn't seem like the sort of gift given by a sporting body - it seems more personal. But I may be wrong about that.  ;)

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 07 August 11 16:01 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for your kind suggestions about the pendant and the inscription.

There's no-one in the family tree with those initials - but I suspect that it is an individual rather than an organisation. Of course, I have absolutely no reason to support that  :)

L.W.A's (Leopold Wilfrid Adams) history is a bit of a mystery - he died in 1933, long before my wife was born and she's anxious to find out more about him.

1913 was significant in that it was the year that his only child (my wife's father) was born. In 1911 at census time he was living with his grandmother in Folke, Dorset (the family were farmers) Later that year he married at Long Burton but was said to be living now at Okeford Fitzpaine.

When the birth of his son was registered he was living in Manston (Dorset).  On all these occasions his occupation was given as 'Political Agent'

We know (from an engraved piece of silver plate given on his marriage) that he 'worked' for the Sturminster Newton Conservative Party. I've had no reply to the several enquiries I've made with them - actually with their latter counterparts (bet it'd be different if I'd have wanted to make a donation)

There's family rumour that later in life he worked for a motor dealer in Wooton Bassett - but that's a bit vague to follow up. He ended up in Coventry in the 1920/30's and we know a little bit more about that period.

Anyway, thanks once again for your suggestions - I'll have to hope more artefacts turn up which make it easier to piece together his history.

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Re: Silver watch fob pendant - help with origin and markings?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 08 August 11 02:15 BST (UK) »
Viv, Do you know Leopold's date of birth and his parent's names?
(I can't see a Leopold Wilfred Adams birth on Freebmd).