Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

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lindleyspider
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Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

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Can anyone help with the mark shown here? The object is a rather elegant silver teaspoon, 14cm long, inherited many years ago. The three marks are on the underside of the stem: a bearded man's head, a name (possibly "LANDRY"), and a face mask: it's the latter that suggests S. America to me. All suggestions welcome.
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Francais

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Paris .950 fine silver 1819-38 by B. Landry (Jean Baptiste Denis LANDRY) 6 cour Lamoignon. Paris Started 1826.
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lindleyspider
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Re: Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

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Ah! Thanks very much for this info. France makes much more sense - the elegance of the design, as well as the probability that the original owner, from whom we inherited, had been there rather than S. America.
Arthur
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