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by Traintime
Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:56 pm
Forum: Other Countries
Topic: Concertina Argentium 935 Cigarette Case NEED HELP INDENTIFYING HALLMARK & ORIGIN
Replies: 3
Views: 575

Re: Concertina Argentium 935 Cigarette Case NEED HELP INDENTIFYING HALLMARK & ORIGIN

Just to be clear…technically there is no “hallmark” found here. That is to say, no authorized authority seems to be regulating the application of marks related to a fineness standard. More like self regulation by the maker. Mark 1 is likely just a maker mark of initials. It is incuse gothic letters ...
by Traintime
Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Please Help me to ID this silver mark
Replies: 2
Views: 8703

Re: Please Help me to ID this silver mark

Another version of alleged [PV] 0.935 sample here: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... 91#p213691
by Traintime
Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:34 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: German Peter Weron?
Replies: 5
Views: 3933

Re: German Peter Weron?

Re-posting images of alleged [PV] 0.935 sample:

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by Traintime
Sun Jul 23, 2023 11:35 am
Forum: London Hallmarks
Topic: georgian cow creamer
Replies: 16
Views: 3829

Re: georgian cow creamer

Mooooo-ved this time for your grazing pleasure:

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by Traintime
Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Please help identify
Replies: 9
Views: 1395

Re: Please help identify

Mark 2 seems to be sample #73 in the link repeated here: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... ey#p207475
by Traintime
Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Please help identify
Replies: 9
Views: 1395

Re: Please help identify

See Amena’s final comment to denote prescribed shape (round) of silversmith’s mark in given era: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... rd#p198640
by Traintime
Wed Jul 19, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Please help identify
Replies: 9
Views: 1395

Re: Please help identify

Thank you…now leads us to sample [# 63] of heptagonal mark of seven stars surrounding numeral (here): https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... ey#p207475
by Traintime
Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:27 pm
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Please help identify
Replies: 9
Views: 1395

Re: Please help identify

And of course, that’s only a wild guess at this point lacking many images and not exactly matching descriptions like rectangular surrounds. So this could be way off still.
by Traintime
Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:20 pm
Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
Topic: Please help identify
Replies: 9
Views: 1395

Re: Please help identify

Marks relate (?) to Spanish .750 with “Comet” for second standard rather than the “Shooting Star” of first fineness:
https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopi ... on#p149038
by Traintime
Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:44 am
Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
Topic: Old Sheffield Plate Cake Stand Unknown Maker
Replies: 1
Views: 724

Re: Old Sheffield Plate Cake Stand Unknown Maker

Cleaning up mark 2 would be helpful here. The location of where the stand surfaced might tell a lot as a SHEFFIELD stamp can either be an export/import mark before actual country of origin was required, or it might be part of the larger scam that was carried on by American manufacturers to give fals...
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:57 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Uknown mark on tea pot
Replies: 7
Views: 1269

Re: Uknown mark on tea pot

Back to square 1….Why would the crown be sideways? Why does the crown seem to have pips rather than sections in the lower half? Could it be that this is not a crown at all? This leads to… Is that first mark even a crescent, or could it be a partial of something else? Further, If a shield contained t...
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:52 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Uknown mark on tea pot
Replies: 7
Views: 1269

Re: Uknown mark on tea pot

In the more common form, the third of three like objects goes to the base of the shield. This is completely reversed, assuming the objects are the same. That would have to be the key to identifying it, unless this were not a shield at all.
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Uknown mark on tea pot
Replies: 7
Views: 1269

Re: Uknown mark on tea pot

Skip all that..it’s not a match here. So, it just might be a real town mark.
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:27 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Uknown mark on tea pot
Replies: 7
Views: 1269

Re: Uknown mark on tea pot

Sorry,that’s Kurz.
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: German Silver
Topic: Uknown mark on tea pot
Replies: 7
Views: 1269

Re: Uknown mark on tea pot

Upside down Hanau-pseudo mark [npr] for Kurtz & Co. found here: https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html
by Traintime
Tue Jul 11, 2023 4:12 pm
Forum: Coin Silversmiths ~ American pre-1860
Topic: Unknown Maker Coin Silver(?) Sugar Spoon
Replies: 4
Views: 1533

Re: Unknown Maker Coin Silver(?) Sugar Spoon

Concentrate on the presumed wholesaler marks as such: Star/????/Eagle. [Actually, a “mullet of six points”, but we’re cutting it to a simple form.] How do you read those marks, which might necessitate cleaning out first? The problem with the maker or retailer mark is that it might also be “D. D. Loc...
by Traintime
Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Coin Silversmiths ~ American pre-1860
Topic: Wm. ROGERS (cartouche) alone
Replies: 0
Views: 1601

Wm. ROGERS (cartouche) alone

Lacking the additional stamps normally indicating coin silver, this standard maker’s mark with the slightly set-out “S” at the tail end begs the question of whether it is solid silver. (A side view shows the gauge of metal narrows as it moves along the handle outwards.) https://i.postimg.cc/zfXwpsKM...

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