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in 1848/9 by William Hair Haseler in Birmingham. It became a limited liability company in 1901 as W H Haseler Ltd with W H Haseler and his sons William Rabone and Frank as the first directors Liberty’s range of jewellery and silver sold under the trade name of ’Cymric’ was launched in 1899. It was manufactured in association with W.H. Haseler of Birmingham, manufacturing jewellers and silversmiths; a subsidiary company known as Liberty & Co. (Cymric) Ltd was registered in May 1901, directed by William Hair Haseler and Frank Haseler, with J.H. Howe and John Llewellyn of Liberty’s. They also made the ’Tudric’ pewter range for Liberty’s. This association ended in 1926 but the firm continued to manufacture for the general retail trade moving in 1934 to 11 Warstone Lane, Birmingham where they were known as Haseler & Restall Ltd. Bibliography: Bury, S., ’New Light on the Liberty metalwork venture’, Bulletin of the Decorative Arts Society 1890-1940 no.1, 14-27, 1977. John Culme, ’The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths 1838-1914’, Woodbridge 1987" - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=77433, 05.01.2018