Unknown Dragon head hallmark

[DioBeli]

Hi,
This hallmark is on what i think is a late 19th century/early 20th albertina chain (pocket watch chain converted to necklace) with tassels at the end, all in gold with black enamel details.
I've searched in all my hallmark books and online, for dragon heads, lions, dogs, eagles and other animals but i can't seem to find it and i'm really curious. It has what i think is a second mark and not part of the same, which is slightly better focused on the second image.

Thanks in advance!


Head focus


General "focus"


Cheers!

[oel]

Hi DioBeli, welcome to the forum.

Perhaps a (twice partly struck, if you could glue them together it will be a) contoured left-facing lion's head with open mouth. Tunisia, used this type of hallmark for small items, referred to as a petite (small) guarantee in that it represent the limited accuracy of the touchstone method of metal testing, signifying a minimum standard fineness of gold 750/1000, with the potential of occasionally testing higher. Used 1905-1917.

Peter.

Source; Hallmark Research Institute, World Hallmarks Volume II Asia, Middle East, Africa

[DioBeli]

Hi DioBeli, welcome to the forum.

Perhaps a (twice partly struck, if you could glue them together it will be a) contoured left-facing lion's head with open mouth. Tunisia, used this type of hallmark for small items, referred to as a petite (small) guarantee in that it represent the limited accuracy of the touchstone method of metal testing, signifying a minimum standard fineness of gold 750/1000, with the potential of occasionally testing higher. Used 1905-1917.

Peter.

Source; Hallmark Research Institute, World Hallmarks Volume II Asia, Middle East, Africa

Thanks for welcoming me and thanks alot for your input!

You have provided me with a great lead! From it i circled back and found an even older mark, that im suspecting it might actually be the correct one, which would also mean both are part of a single mark. To add to my confusion it is represented in the book vertically, but rotated the lion is facing the left too.

A portuguese municipal mark for the Lisbon assayer Joaquim António Soares, supposedly active during the second half of the 19th century, and associated with the period of 1881-1886 (right before the creation of the national assay office in 1887).

I will keep looking nonetheless

Cheers from Portugal!

[oel]

Hi, I believe you found your answer, it is Lisbon assayer Joaquim António Soares 's mark.
Great work.

Peter.