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- Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: Dutch Silver
- Topic: Sterling Sugar Shaker?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 632
Re: Sterling Sugar Shaker?
:::: update: I've found a Dutch Sugar Shaker from 1880 with a very similar top & a claim is made that this style of top is emulating Dutch Sugar Shakers from the years 1740 to 1760. ::::::: Is it possible this is one of the original Dutch Sugar Shakers from the years 1740 to 1760 therefore the t...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:25 am
- Forum: Dutch Silver
- Topic: Sterling Sugar Shaker?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 632
Re: Sterling Sugar Shaker?
::::: I'm doing a thought-experiment, imagining that I was the silversmith who was modifying a vase and fitting it with a sugar-caster top in order to make the entire object into a sugar caster.......::::::: ::::: As the silversmith, why would I pierce the base with all those ovals around the base o...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Irish Hallmarks
- Topic: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1264
Re: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
::::: Thank you. I was just reviewing Joseph Walker, this is proving to be quite challenging. ::::::
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Irish Hallmarks
- Topic: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1264
Re: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
::::: The only Dublin Ireland hallmark that could even possibly fit is Edward Workman, and also the way he inscribed numbers in a sort of slanted style, maybe there's not enough evidence, but at least the leading candidate right now is Edward Workman, in my mind at least. :::::: https://i.imgur.com/...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Irish Hallmarks
- Topic: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1264
Re: Irish Ale Tankard - need help with Hallmarks
:::: Could this maybe be 1715 and the date-letter is just slightly mis-struck so some details at the top of the "Y" did not strike through (you can barely see those details if you look very very closely at the date letter)? :::::::::::: ::::: If this is 1715, is it possible that the mark i...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Russian Silver
- Topic: Enameled box mark,Russia or Armenian?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7460
Re: Enameled box mark,Russia or Armenian?
::::: 1). Comparing the serial number to the 916 number, the four digits in the serial number seems to be "emulating" a factory number and those numbers have been hand-engraved to simulate a factory-stamped factory number using a factory-style punch. ::::::: ::::: 2). The letters in the ma...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:30 am
- Forum: Russian Silver
- Topic: Russian silver chalice - goblet help
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1599
Re: Russian silver chalice - goblet help
:::::::::::::::::: If someone is able to find the image of that 1747 tankard marked Boris Gavrilov I would much enjoy to see it if possible thanks :::::::::::::::::::::::
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Non-Meriden phoenix?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 235
Re: Non-Meriden phoenix?
::::: I have a combination hallmark of the traditional Meriden hallmark and the International Sterling hallmark. ::::: ::::: So is this Meriden before it was absorbed by International Silver? ::::: :::::: Or is this after Meriden was absorbed by International Silver and the International Silver hall...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Help with mark on antique pipe
- Replies: 5
- Views: 709
Re: Help with mark on antique pipe
:::: The smudge of green in one of the pics and just an overall felling I get when looking at the metal makes me wonder if it is not Nickel Silver or White Brass? ::::: I have a feel ing this is a metal other than silver, maybe? ::::::
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: A silver oil lamp, where does it come from?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 747
Re: A silver oil lamp, where does it come from?
::::: At first glance I was thinking Italy too, but the more I looked at the face the more I thought it looked like an Ancient Greek coin (Rhodes) and the 2-letters that is probably the Maker's Mark look like Greek lettering to me, so it is possible that we are looking for a silversmith from Greece....
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Newcastle Hallmarks
- Topic: Sauceboat from Newcastle, 1774-75
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25475
Re: Sauceboat from Newcastle, 1774-75
:::::: The resource (Silver Collection Dot Eye Tea) has your hallmark archived and says the image is a cup. :::::
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Who Would Have Copied This Hunt & Roskell Pattern?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 747
Re: Who Would Have Copied This Hunt & Roskell Pattern?
::: A butter knife was submitted for review here but nobody seemed to know much about it. ::::: :::::::::::::::: "c1880 Sterling Cake Slice - Anyone know maker and pattern?" ::::::::::::::::::::::::; ::: Also marked STERLING and perhaps we will never know who was re-casting these patterns....
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:45 am
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: Unknown European? marks on vintage Red Riding Hood rattle
- Replies: 3
- Views: 491
Re: Unknown European? marks on vintage Red Riding Hood rattle
:::: Seems like "LBO 90" to my eyes so in cases like this the "90" refers to the grams of silver used in the silver-plating process, so this is silver-plated and not sterling silver, I'm not sue who LBO is but my best guess is that is a Germany maker, it's a nice design, the piec...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Rolling Wheel (Hollow) With Twisted Handle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 706
Re: Rolling Wheel (Hollow) With Twisted Handle
::::: Finally found an example by Web Silversmiths and they say it's a child's toy and baby rattle, but it is strange that this example does not rattle. :::::
:::: It would have been easy to figure out if it had rattled. Thanks for your suggestion, it led me towards the answer. :::::
:::: It would have been easy to figure out if it had rattled. Thanks for your suggestion, it led me towards the answer. :::::
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Rolling Wheel (Hollow) With Twisted Handle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 706
Rolling Wheel (Hollow) With Twisted Handle
Mystery item with twisted handle and rolling wheel (hollow) :::: Hard to read the word next to STERLING ::::
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Native American Silver
- Topic: Information Wanted on This Item
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1200
Re: Information Wanted on This Item
:::::: Peru made a lot of silver for the tourist trade in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s and often an image of the great god Viracocha is depicted and I think the image on the right is a very worn image of the great god Viracocha ::::::: I have never seen the image to the left, I really am not sure w...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Flatware Pattern Identification
- Topic: Help identifying sterling flatware maker
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1075
Re: Help identifying sterling flatware maker
::::::::: Reminds me of STATE HOUSE silver patterns, strange that there is no company name. ::::::::::
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Coin Silversmiths ~ American pre-1860
- Topic: Embossed Peacock on Bowl of Spoon?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1306
Re: Embossed Peacock on Bowl of Spoon?
:::::: Check for worn hallmarks, put the spoons under various intensities and sources of light, tilt the handles back and forth, and you might be able to make out the hallmarks ::::::: ::::: Sometimes putting the spoon under very low light and tilting the handle back and forth will reveal the hallma...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:42 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Tall Gilded Goblet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1844
Re: Tall Gilded Goblet
::::: What are the two small bulbs with the perforated lids for? :::::: They look like tiny salt and pepper shakers? :::::;
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Is this an egg cup? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Is this an egg cup? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
- Topic: Triskel Hallmark
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1006
Re: Triskel Hallmark
::::: Late 20th century Turkish silver can have a maker's mark of 2 letters and a fineness number (like 900) :::::: :::::: The "running right" 3-legged-symbol is originally found in Aspendos, it is found on the silver coins of Ancient Greece, so that is what leads me to think about Greece ...