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Hi Is this sugar tongs Chinese silver? It is a flea market find in central Europe. I found similar marks in the Chinese section in the World Marks, but not an exact match. If yes, can you name the maker and the place? Also, what is the silver purity and the approximate date of manufacturing? Thank y...

Hi, I got this tray together with a small coffee set which I posted seperately. It is only marked with "Silver", no other marks. It is definitely hand made, as it has small irregularities in the shape and still faint hammer marks from the forming process. The decorations on the rim are cas...

Hi I got this coffee set from an online platform. The 3 items are only marked "SILVER". They are VERY heavy, normally an indication for silver plated. But I have a feeling for "massive" silver. And, one picture shows the internal of the coffee pot, there you can see it is made of...

Hi
this MH mark is from Martin Huber, Basel. Born 1636, Master 1659, died 1676. His widow continued the business until 1682.
Nice find!
Jörg

Source: Weltliches Silber I.

Hi Theo
thank you very much.
Jörg

Can you help me with this very light (unusable thin..., 9 Gramms) teaspoon? I found long ago another item with the same lion, and "Weltliches Silber 2" attributes this lion mark as "unknown, Switzerland". Maybe the maker mark can help? Thank you Jörg https://abload.de/img/2022062...

As an update here the pictures from 2011:

Here another spoon from the set which included two items from Neuchatel in Switzerland. I belive this one to be from Neuchatel / Neuenburg, too. Maker looks like "IR". The spoon is dated 1754. Can you help me with the maker and confirmation of city? Thank you Jörg https://abload.de/img/202...

Can you help me with the maker of this spoon? The chevron and the eagle indicate Neuchatel / Neuenburg in Switzerland. I read the mark as IMM. It came in a set with other spoons and forks from Neuchatel and should date around 1750 to 1800. I notice the owners name was "King", "Roi&quo...

11 years ago I asked the forum about a fork, see here: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=24484 Blakstone helped me, it is from Neuchatel / Neuenburg in Switzerland, from Charles-Louis-Guillaume Bonvepre, (1749-1808), master 1766. Unfortunately, the pictures from the original po...

Hi I got this fork together with 3 more similar items from Neuchatel, Switzerland. The Neuchatel items are dated in the 1750ies. I think this fork is French. Can you confirm? Where is it made, when, and by whom? Thank you for your help. Jörg https://abload.de/img/20220530_210610jpj0o.jpg https://abl...

Hi The post was moved to the German section, with good reason. I think this could be a Berlin Mark. I think we had the maker "B" already in this forum, but could not find it. Theo will for sure follow up. In the meantime, can you clean the marks and post again. If there is a letter behind ...

Judicum is the book of Judges in the bible. Samson is fighting the lion. See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson

Regards
Jörg

Hi
this is the Apollo from Belvedera, a famous antique sculpture, now in the Vatican.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Belvedere
The second "item" is just lower quality.
Regards, Jörg

Hi to legrandmogul, on silver plating "massive, 800, 925" silver. See the Youtube video from Robbe&Berking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PUDXRsGSVA in 1:50 they start galvanising, explaining in German they even galvanize 925 Sterling. then, I think, the set is not silver from all t...

Hi very interesting. Yes, here in Central Europe you stumble across these ARG800 sets quite regularly. They also pop up on auction platforms etc. Your set has quite a distinctive pattern, different from the normal ARG800 type. And it appears your 800 mark is stamped. Usually the ARG800 mark is part ...

Please keep in mind to open a new topic if you post a different mark. However, the bottom spoon has the same maker and makers mark, JLS, so also J.L.Schoechlin as Theo pointed out. The other is from the still existing Swiss maker Jezler in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Just search Jezler in the forum. ...

Hi and welcome to the forum. I did not find the maker. However, the spoons look southern German or Swiss. From the syle, the marking and the two stars they are similar to spoons from the Zürich area from 1835 to approximately 1860. Are there any stories running in your family where they are from or ...

Using the input from Theo I found an old post ferom 2009 from Theo and Blackstone.
There they state:
Heinrich Friedrich Krumstroh (1813-1876), Master 1842

Assay master "C" is again Friedrich Christoph Greve (1829-1854)

So this spoon dates between 1842 and 1854

Following Baner's hint I searched the internet on Watty. It seems they are somehow famous silversmith in Hamburg. We have Joachim Heinrich Watty (1787-1845) and his son Johann Heinrich Watty (1816-1889). He got the concession number 66 in 1843. Assy master "C" is Friedrich Christoph Greve ...