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Adie & Lovekin Ltd

James Adie and Alfred Lovekin were trading as silversmiths at Acock Green and 175 Hokey Hill, Birmingham before 1872. Their first mark, A&L, was registered at the Birmingham Assay Office on the 27th May 1879, when the address then given, was Regent Street, Birmingham.

Adie and Lovekin produced many different wares, including jewellery in both silver and gold, a thriving trade, which by the end of the 19-th century, has developed into one of the most important of its kind in the Midlands. The firm was incorporated as a Limited Company, Adie & Lovekin Ltd, in 1889, with the mark A&LLd first registered on 9-th January 1890 and finally became Adie & Lovekin (1925) Ltd. They used a number of different marks during their period of manufacture but none was registered to the Company after 22-nd October 1919, by which time they had moved premises to 23 Frederick Street. Adie and Lovekin were last listed in the Birmingham Trades Directory at the same address in 1930/31.

Adie & Lovekin Ltd was one of the most prolific makers of silver-handled buttonhooks, producing large number in a wide variety of shapes and designs. Company made unique silver items during the late Victorian and Edwardian Art Nouveau era. They finished trading around the 1920s. Items included button hooks, pin cushions their speciality being animal shaped novelty pin cushions in the form of pigs, swans, elephants and even camels. They also made babies rattles, bookmarks, nurses buckles and other novelty silver items.