Help Deciphering Initials

[Sunnee_Dee]

Hello 

Hoping someone with a better eye than me can read the initials on this coin locket?

We believe it belonged to someone on my maternal grandmothers side but none of us can read or agree on the letters!

Many thanks. x

[Ruskie]

A wild guess …
B something P? 

[arthurk]

Very tentatively I'd suggest L P P. The second and third letters have some similarities in their formation, and if I'm right, one of the main differences would be that the third one is more squashed up.

It's a bit hard to tell what it's made of, but if it's silver rather than something like pewter, does the date of the hallmark give you any clues?

[Sunnee_Dee]

Would SGP look right?

It’s silver and I’ve narrowed down the maker to 1910 in Birmingham and am thinking it may have belonged to my Great Grandfather…

Honestly, so many of my family mysteries come from that one man, lol.

[arthurk]

SGP is possible - those were on my shortlist.

Don't set too much store by the place of the hallmark, as many items like this were made in Birmingham and shipped around the country. But if you can tie those initials to 1910, that may be one of your strongest clues. Particularly where there's a bit of doubt as to what the initials actually are, you sometimes have to settle for "more likely than not" rather than "beyond reasonable doubt".

[Gadget]

It's too entwined for me.

Is this any help

[Gadget]

Lots of tracing around the swirls gives me

LGP

L the most questionable.

[Sunnee_Dee]

Thank you both for your thoughts on this.

The date does tie in with my GGFather Stanley Glyn Philips 1889-1933 and it has come down on that relatively small side of the family, so it’s definitely a possibility in absence of anything more concrete.

[arthurk]

That does sound quite likely, and if you don't have any other likely candidates you might have to take this as correct unless proven otherwise.

Nevertheless, the first letter does seem a bit lacking in the lower curl area for an 'S', and there appears to be a more or less unattached line between that and the 'G' - or maybe that's the way that particular engraver did an 'S'?