Channel Islands Salts?

bstaunto · Post by **bstaunto** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:25 am

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone out there is a bit of a Channel Islands silver expert.

I got this pair of salts a few weeks back, they were labelled as Guernsey made. Indeed, the makers mark does seem to match Pierre Maingy .

Its interesting the way the marks (they are done the same way on both salts) are made to look a lot more like British marks than is normally done on CI silver. The first punch is the P, then the second it is swung around and the M is punched, thirdly is a simple punch and fourth is the complete makers mark.

In Mayne's book, there are no salts like these listed by this maker (although he did make other salts) and indeed they are a style a bit later than this maker was known to be working. Style wise they would date to around 1770's on the mainland, and normally the provincial makers were a few years behind London.

Any thoughts?

Ben

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Post by **dognose** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:13 am

Hi Ben,

Can you provide a better close up image of the marks?

Trev.
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bstaunto · Post by **bstaunto** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:11 am

Hi Trev,

I'll try and borrow a better camera to get a better picture.

Ben
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bstaunto · Post by **bstaunto** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:48 pm

Here is a better picture (I decided to get a new camera!)

Ben

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Post by **dognose** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:05 am

Hi Ben,

Just for compraison I have shown a known mark of Pierre Maingy.

My first thoughts are that your mark is from a more professionally made punch, of course, that does not exclude Maingy who may well have used more than one punch during his working life, but as it not a match for the known mark, attribution would be difficult.

Trev.
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