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by oel
Mon Nov 03, 2025 5:45 pm
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Silver miniature chatelaine
Replies: 2
Views: 40

Re: Silver miniature chatelaine

We see twice.
The script-letter I used 1906-1953; Duty mark for unguaranteed standard of fineness new silver objects of national origin.
This mark was used on all new Netherlands silver objects below legal standard of fineness, those with non-precious metal additions, and new heavily silver plated ...
by oel
Mon Nov 03, 2025 1:52 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Maker or country of origin please.
Replies: 2
Views: 65

Re: Maker or country of origin please.

Hi Ian,

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/fXmPDN.jpg
Winter fun, man on skates behind sled with a woman in it.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/923/35uWWK.jpg
It could be Dutch pseudo marks, pseudo town mark Augsburg, #538 in Valse zilvermerken in Nederland by K.A ...
by oel
Fri Oct 31, 2025 3:37 pm
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Please help me determine the year of manufacture, the manufacturer and the years of operation.
Replies: 1
Views: 125

Re: Please help me determine the year of manufacture, the manufacturer and the years of operation.

As described by the Stockholm auction house, June 2025;

Silver teapot on a silver réchaud. In the Rococo style. Johannes Horstmann, Amsterdam 1785. Teapot and stand also with a later tax stamp for the year 1795. Round, downwardly tapering shape with decoration of twisted grooves. Engraved ...
by oel
Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:11 am
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Two completely different Dutch caddy spoons, in length, weight, and shape.
Replies: 0
Views: 95

Two completely different Dutch caddy spoons, in length, weight, and shape.

Two completely different Dutch caddy spoons, in length, weight, and shape.

Around 1775, the need for caddy spoons arose when tea caddies with hinged lids began to be used, and the separate lid, which also served as a tea measure, disappeared. The length of a caddy spoon is 7 to 10 cm, while the ...
by oel
Mon Oct 27, 2025 6:48 pm
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Silver brandy bowl with clover
Replies: 1
Views: 176

Re: Silver brandy bowl with clover

Twice the same maker's mark, a clover in outline with a V-shaped stem, could point to Groningen. The existing literature on Groningen silversmiths doesn't mention any master who used a clover as his mark. The horizontal handles also don't point to Groningen.
A clover was a favorite maker's mark and ...
by oel
Mon Oct 27, 2025 5:03 pm
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Brandy bowl Zwolle, Maker?
Replies: 2
Views: 148

Re: Brandy bowl Zwolle, Maker?

https://i.postimg.cc/w1hNZjy3/IMG-20251027-171749991.jpg

Brandy bowl, eight-lobed bowl on a pedestal with two cast handles. The bowl is decorated with hammered points.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/922/2w1UyP.jpg
​Town mark Zwolle
The city hallmark for silver objects from ...
by oel
Mon Oct 27, 2025 12:25 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Please help with this mark
Replies: 9
Views: 493

Re: Please help with this mark

by oel
Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:49 am
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Please help with this mark
Replies: 9
Views: 493

Re: Please help with this mark

Perhaps Koch & Bergfeld - Bremen.

https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_a1884_5.html
https://www.silvercollection.it/GERMANMAKERSTOOLS.html

Lets us wait for more reaction.

Peter.
by oel
Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:32 am
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Please help with this mark
Replies: 9
Views: 493

Re: Please help with this mark

No it is the same, please use the preview button before submit, if you can not enlarge it, so can't we. Also better enhanced images of the signatures may help.

Peter.
by oel
Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:18 am
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Please help with this mark
Replies: 9
Views: 493

Re: Please help with this mark

Hi, please show us images we can enlarge perhaps we can solve the "puzzle". Handgeschlagen means Hand-beaten
Check out Otto Wolter?
https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_a1884_10.html
Peter.
by oel
Fri Oct 24, 2025 8:03 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Chocolate Pot ?
Replies: 2
Views: 240

Re: Chocolate Pot ?

Hi Nigel, indeed a chocolate pot or can. The hole in the lid is for putting a stick through to stir the chocolate. To prevent the fatty chocolate drink from clumping, a stirring rod, called molinet is inserted through the hole. Indeed it looks a little strange that this can has no spout
https://www ...
by oel
Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:33 am
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Austria? Lemberg contribution stamps.
Replies: 3
Views: 388

Re: Austria? Lemberg contribution stamps.

It appears to me to be a running horse under W or a moose?

Peter.
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 7:06 pm
Forum: Mexican Silversmiths
Topic: TS-94
Replies: 1
Views: 216

Re: TS-94

Hi, welcome to the forum. Images are required, for information how to attach and embedded see
viewtopic.php?t=42199

Peter.
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 2:23 pm
Forum: Asia & Middle East - Single Image
Topic: Marking on a large tray that has Middle Eastern design
Replies: 2
Views: 488

Re: Marking on a large tray that has Middle Eastern design

Please show us an image of the complete tray. It might tell us more
Peter.
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:25 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: silver cup inverted star
Replies: 7
Views: 495

Re: silver cup inverted star

No, we do not discuss priced, please read our forum rules.

Peter.
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 9:28 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: silver cup inverted star
Replies: 7
Views: 495

Re: silver cup inverted star

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/924/8eTwEa.jpg

This (perhaps religious) bowl and the marks.
​ https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/923/4iicga.jpg
Maker's mark a six-pointed star or? A six- pointed star can have various meanings. A six-pointed star or Star of David often ...
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 8:07 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: silver cup inverted star
Replies: 7
Views: 495

Re: silver cup inverted star

Hi welcome to the forum, images are required. For information how to attache and embedded images read
viewtopic.php?t=42199

Peter.
by oel
Wed Oct 22, 2025 7:57 am
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: A strange hallmarking
Replies: 3
Views: 250

Re: A strange hallmarking

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q70/923/VmWOs4.jpg

Hello, a beautiful silver coffee pot made in Brussels in 1776. We see the Brabant Lion along with the archangel Saint Michael, from the city 's coat of arms added in 1480 at the latest in the form of a head topped with a cross. The ...
by oel
Mon Oct 20, 2025 8:09 am
Forum: Dutch Silver
Topic: Silver needle case, Maker?
Replies: 2
Views: 373

Re: Silver needle case, Maker?

Can you please make a few more clear enhanced images, different angels of the mark.
Also perhaps not a needle case but a Wax Seal Case, the initials PR on the seal are mirrored. The meaning of a bird with a twig in its beak is a symbol of peace, hope, and new life, originating from the biblical ...
by oel
Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:04 am
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Austriac Cigarette case?
Replies: 3
Views: 548

Re: Austriac Cigarette case?

Hi, I have to correct myself, ALEX https://www.925-1000.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=40763 made clear to me not Italy but Czechoslovakia 1921-1929, womans head facing left.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/923/B0qlCn.png



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