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Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Ebenezer Coker was the son of William Coker a cheesemonger from Berkhampsted. Coker was apprenticed to Joseph Smith on 21 October 1728 and finished his service on 7 February 1740. Coker married Elizabeth Ransey at St. Benet, Pauls Wharf on 1 December 1739 . He entered his first mark on 27 March 1738, second mark on 25 June 1739, third mark on 24 May 1745, fourth mark on 20 December 1751 and fifth mark sometime after 1758. Coker partnered with Thomas Hammond from 1759-60 before dissolving this partnership in favour of working alone. Coker's primary works were candlesticks and salvers. The Gentleman's Magazine noted that Coker was bankrupt in 1781 and later that he had died 2 August 1783. This biographical information is available in Grimwade's London Goldsmiths on pp. 467-8 and his marks on p. 50 (marks for 1738 and 1739) and p. 252 (mark for 1759) of the same text.
Places
Golden Cup and Rising Sun at Clerkenwell Close or Green (1738 and 1770) and 13 Wood Street (1770)
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
largeworker, plateworker
Mandates/sources of authority
London Goldsmiths 1697-1837: Their Marks and Lives from the Original Registers at Goldsmiths' Hall and Other Sources by Arthur G. Grimwade (London: Faber and Faber, 1976).