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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: 2 sterling spoons please identify them
- Replies: 3
- Views: 193
Re: 2 sterling spoons please identify them
Anders Wedin, Söderhamn, Sweden 1857.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Unknown British Family Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 271
Re: Unknown British Family Crest
Closest match I could find when searching Fairbairn's book of crest is plate 126.14 which would be for: "Russell, Lieutenant - Colonel Andrew Hamilton. J.P., formerly of Manga Kuri, Hawkesbay, New Zealand, and now of Fonthill, Torquay, upon a mount vert, an antelope lodged ppr., gorged with a c...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Antique German Bavarian Salt Cellar Date?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 810
Re: Antique German Bavarian Salt Cellar Date?
13 Loth fineness is .812,5. Not sterling (.925). Combination of lion and Augsburg acorn suggests pseudo marks. Regards Hi where do you see a lion? I see n F The mark above 13 which might look like F is just struck weakly. I think it's a shield which has a lion's face (or some other animal). You can...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 8:25 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Re signature on back plate of box ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 535
Re: Re signature on back plate of box ?
The first name (?) looks like Innen to me which wound mean "inside" in German. But this doesn't make much sense if Chanier is supposed to be a French surname. Just wondering how the engraving is placed and if it was meant to be seen at all? It doesn't really look like a well made engraving...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Help with a Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1787
Re: Help with a Crest
Clan Logan has a crest "a passion nail piercing a human heart", see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Logan
Fairbairn's book of crests also gives two other families, Chetwyn and Lightfoot, with a similar crest (Plate 181/4).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Logan
Fairbairn's book of crests also gives two other families, Chetwyn and Lightfoot, with a similar crest (Plate 181/4).
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:17 am
- Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
- Topic: Mystery hallmark…German?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1285
Re: Mystery hallmark…German?
Looks a bit like Hamburg but the hallmark is rather distorted and the photo isn't the best either. You should take a better photo and see if there are any other marks like maker's. And a photo of the whole item would help to determine the age.
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 4:07 am
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Baptize spoon from Germany?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2369
Re: Baptize spoon from Germany?
I don't think it's Finnish. There would have to be full set of hallmarks: crown, town, maker, and year. The same applies for Sweden. Sometimes town and date could be omitted in small items but even then crown and maker would be mandatory.
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:26 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Munsey & Co Ltd Cambridge chalice coat of arms
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2006
Re: Munsey & Co Ltd Cambridge chalice coat of arms
The coat of arms would be for the kingdom of England (fleur-de-lis representing France and lions passant England) from the period when the English monarchs claimed to be also kings of France. However the bordure around the coat of arms usually denotes illegitimate descent and in this case it's simil...
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:34 am
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: Please Help with Identification.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1492
Re: Please Help with Identification.
Petter Ersson Lund (1713-49), Stockholm 1743. The crowned head is that of Saint Erik, patron saint of Stockholm. I assume there isn't the three crowns mark (introduced in 1750s) so the G=1743 would indicate a date before the current practice started in 1759. Petter Ersson Lund's son Petter was also ...
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 1:21 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Unknown Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1025
Re: Unknown Crest
The closest match I could find is the crest of the Field family:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Field_crest
It's missing the wreath though. Fairbairn's book of crests doesn't seem to have similar crest either.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Field_crest
It's missing the wreath though. Fairbairn's book of crests doesn't seem to have similar crest either.
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: Maybe silver chalice with paten
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1158
Re: Maybe silver chalice with paten
It looks like the inscription is in Latin and probably tells more about the chalice. I can see the year 1750 and AO DNO (Anno Domini) before it the word Calicem (chalice) so probably someone donated the chalice to a church to commemorate something. If you could decipher more of the text or provide b...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: Please help me identify the city, workshop and years of work?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1185
Re: Please help me identify the city, workshop and years of work?
Växjö, Sweden, and GÅ for Georg Henrik Åkerberg (1819-1868). I'm not sure about the year mark though. It looks like B2 (upside down) but 1784 would be too early (he was born in 1790). Maybe B5=1856 if number 5 is mirrored by mistake.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:00 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: georgian cow creamer
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3970
Re: georgian cow creamer
Is there a trace of the maker's mark to the right from the hallmarks? It looks like there could be a letter B or maybe it's only a reflection or cow's hair.
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:22 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Unknown family crest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1792
Re: Unknown family crest
I think it's an ostrich holding a horseshoe. Such crest can be found in Fairbairn's book of crests but unfortunately several families have used it so I don't think it's possible to know much more without any other information about the item (initials, provenance etc.). https://archive.org/details/fa...
- Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:51 pm
- Forum: Russian Silver
- Topic: Help with ID on this Russian mirror
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2239
Re: Help with ID on this Russian mirror
The coat of arms could be those of the princely house of Dolgorukov although a more detailed picture would be better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dolgorukov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Dolgorukov
- Sat May 13, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Question on this very English coat of arms
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3287
Re: Question on this very English coat of arms
The one with cross and wheat garbs appears to be the coat of arms of Vernon of Hanbury. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry of Hanbury Hall where you can see the coat of arms above the entrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbury_Hall I don't know the other coat of arms but when coat of arms are...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Antique plated silver mark assistance
- Replies: 3
- Views: 875
Re: Antique plated silver mark assistance
Eagle and griffin are called crests. They are heraldic symbols of the owner's family. In this case they might represent the families of a husband and a wife. Originally crests were worn by knights in tournaments on top of a helmet.
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: Swedish box - completely stumped
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1903
Re: Swedish box - completely stumped
It's Carl Ahlstrand, 1790-1802(1804), Askersund, N2=1795. The typeface isn't that important (unlike with English silver) and CA seems to have used rather peculiar year letters. The information comes from Erik Andrén etc., Svenskt silversmide, p. 244.
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 3:59 am
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: 13 Loth German fork with 5 marks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1604
Re: 13 Loth German fork with 5 marks
Could be SFS for Sven Ferdinand Sundholm (1871-1918), Vaasa (Nikolainkaupunki), Finland. The first mark is date and could be O4=1895, the second one resembles the town mark / coat of arms of Vaasa ( a sheaf), then 18L, and if the fourth mark is a single crown it's Finland and the last mark looks lik...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Maybe France, around 1800
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1720
Re: Maybe France, around 1800
"After the War he received the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Louis (France), of the Order of Leopold (Austria) and of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Sardinia)." - Those seem to be exactly the orders engraved in the spoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Franz_von_Bachmann