Chester silver hallmarks, 1935
Silver assayed in Chester in 1935 carries the date letter K, alongside the marks below.
Where this date comes from
The cycle covering Chester in this period is read from Silver Makers’ Marks, and was not cross-checked against a second published table. The letters are given exactly as that source gives them.
The span matches the years this office is independently known to have operated, and the letters run in order with the omissions British practice would predict — which is why it is published. It is still one table rather than two, so confirm anything that money turns on.
Reading it
The three wheatsheaves and a sword places the piece at Chester. That mark alone rules out every other office in Britain, which is why it is worth finding first.
One thing to hold loosely: the assay year has never run from January. Each office changed its date letter punch on a set day, so a single letter covers the end of one calendar year and most of the next. A piece dated here to a year may have been assayed in the following one.
A maker’s mark — initials in a shaped punch — sits alongside these and is the one mark this tool cannot help with: there are tens of thousands, and identifying one means a register rather than a rule.
The same year at the other offices, 1935
If you can read the letter but not the town mark, compare it against these. The letterform and the shape of the shield are what separate one office from another.