I have a silver/ with some possible gold /goldplate relief work bangle and I’m trying to figure out what city is the assay office as it didn’t match any of the British cities I know. It looks like a leaf but not a clover leaf or Fleur de lys. Any ideas. Is it a provincial mark? It’s not Chester what sheaves but rubbed The maker is JS
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Hi
Not totally sure but I think it may be Canadian. JS the maker, a Maple Leaf and H for Halifax Nova Scotia
Maple leaf, maple syrup more like 
Definitely Chester 1958 - unless the Canadians are breeding mutant maples.
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Thanks for the input.
Thanks for the help. I thought possibly Chester but it looked different than usual with the wheatsheaves.
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That is what happens if you polish three wheat sheaves with a sword sticking up between two of them for 46 years: deformed Canadian maple leaves.
Chester’s guild has a long history, dating back to medieval times. The City marked its silver with its own assay mark until 1962. From 1701 the wheatsheaves mark changed to the Arms of Chester impaling those of the Earl of Chester (three lions) but reverted back to the earlier mark in 1779.
A Guild of Goldsmiths existed in Chester in medieval times, but it was not until 1701 that Chester was officially established by Act of Parliament as an assay town. From the early 1700s new date letter punches were introduced in July each year. The Chester Assay Office on Gossman Street closed on 24 August 1962 because of loss of work to Birmingham and retirement of skilled employees who could not be replaced.
CRWW
Toronto
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