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Can you help to identify these silver marks on candlesticks?
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:52 pm
by Silvermania
Can you identify these silver marks on some candlesticks? We think they could possibly be Austro-Hungarian.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Re: Can you help to identify these silver marks on candlesticks?
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:04 pm
by oel
It is probably not solid silver but made out of a non precious metal.
According a google search; Viennese work VBC/CHS, double headed eagle (CHS: "Chinese Silver" an alloy. Its composition is 38% copper, 17.5% zinc, 11.5% nickel, 11% cobalt, and 2% silver.)
Let us wait for others to comment.
Peter.
Re: Can you help to identify these silver marks on candlesticks?
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:54 pm
by dognose
Re: Can you help to identify these silver marks on candlesticks?
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:29 pm
by Silvermania
Silvermania wrote: Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:52 pm
Can you identify these silver marks on some candlesticks? We think they could possibly be Austro-Hungarian.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Thank you both for your help and pointing me in the right direction. This is a brilliant site 👍