Hayne & Carter

Hayne & Carter was a manufacturing silversmith founded by Thomas Wallis Snr. around 1758 in London when he entered his first mark as a largeworker, having completed his apprenticeship to William Jones in 1756.

The firm was passed on to his son Thomas Wallis Jnr, in 1777 who entered into partnership with Jonathan Hayne in 1810. They dissolved their partnership in 1816 and Jonathan Hayne then entered his own first mark in 1821.

His son, Samuel Holditch Hayne, went into partnership with a former apprentice Dudley Frank Cater in 1836 as Hayne & Co and assumed full control of the business on the death of his father Jonathan Hayne in 1848.

They now traded as Hayne & Cater, and were listed between 1853 to 1864 as wholesale silversmiths, manufacturers and silver spoon and fork makers. Cater retired in 1864 and Hayne continued trading as Samuel Hayne & Co.

The firm ceased trading in 1865.