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Hi -
all in all one of the phantastic storys coming up every five years, much "history" and many rumors, several known dealers (always the same),an auction house in the North, a lot of unclear or wrong details and a customer who lost his hard earned money for scrap silver. Always the same.

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Mind my asking two questions:

1. What date is removed and where from?
2. How does Nicholas & Plinke relate to LÃ¥ng or fit the picture?

1. the date below the assayers mark is missing. the recess where it is supposed to be is there but the date is not.

2. Nicholas & Plinke were court jewellers ...

thank you for your information. I have stumbled across more information. These pieces were purchased from A La Vieille Russie 781 5th Avenue New York in 1979. A La Vieille Russie, a family enterprise since its founding in Kiev in 1851, left the turmoil of the Revolution and was re-established in ...

Update: found HAL

Nichols & Plinke Henrik Long

the Tsar's court jeweller

found my silverware
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/hhm56.pl?f=NR&c=69868&t=temartic_O_GB&db=kat56_o.txt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

it was part of her dowry.

now if someone could tell why a date ...

i found more information. This is the catalogue from the most recent Grand Duchess's Bruun-Rasmussen auction:

http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/vfs/catalogues/779/779_rusvaria.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

on page 37 you see a set of guilded silverware. some aspects of the silver ...

Hi -
maybe you did not understand what I wrote! It is not importand with which Lot together the things were bought - it is important what marks on each of the pieces are. No marks - no silver! No photos - no answers!
Please provide significant photos of the marks or forget it.

Regards
Zolotnik

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To the naked eye the knives are all one piece. The forks and spoons are definitely one piece. They are silver, i have already been quated the scrap value. They were purchased in the same lot as several faberge pieces by my grandfather in 79'. given the assayers mark steming from 1834-56 and the ...

I have some russian imperial silver supposedly belonging to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolevna. The only mark i have found is the assayers mark belonging to Dimitry Ilyich Tverskoi, St. Petersburg 1834-1851. Identical looking spoons appeared in a previous post with GAS. The best i can make out the makers ...