Nuttin' but Struttin'

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Okay, maybe doesn't belong here. But it was so shiny I just had to take Goldilocks spoon and find out about this Chicken in the Rough mark. Big Bird is noodling leftward, probably trying to evade Colonel Sanders. He's followed by a "68" in a rectangle. Not sure if this was a brass base once plated, a white metal coated in a gold overlay, or another one of those fake gold solid metal alloys they played with. If you try to convince me it's a French gold mark, I'll have you breaded and seasoned and sold in a paper bucket. TIA

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Solid one piece metal casting or blank (sheet punch). Filing marks visible, but gold color fills all spaces.
Search ref.: "cockerel" "un coq" "le coq" "rooster", and just in case "peacock" all [in rectangle] [in square] {"Number 68", "No. 68", "#68"}

Given that this could be a partial of a plater's mark, some Gallia marks showing difference in both of these left birds with raised foot: http://www.ascasonline.org/windowottob77.html

All very trying since only reference found for use of the number 68 is a French Bureaux (Office) listing regarding assayance of precious metal.

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Would the same European grams standards in silverplate marks be used in gold plating, thus 68g here? If so, what would the accepted quality standard of the gold be?

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One ref. that includes number marks for gold plate in the same manner as silver: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=51493&p=159837&hil ... ks#p159837

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Yet another variant of bad bird marks suspected of being Gallic Cock forms but lacking full extra marks for Gallia: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=45608&p=133419&hil ... te#p133419