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Thank you Mart, your insight is very much appreciated!
Best regards,
Ron

Hi Mart,
Thank you! I guess that Bragin never worked in Kostroma and a St Petersburg silversmith would have used the St Petersburg assay office, so most likely Blochin, unless there was another silversmith using the АБ mark. Do you know anything about Artemi Vasilev Blochin?
Thanks again for your ...

[quote="ronenros"]Hi,
I recently acquired this Russian silver salt chair. The assay mark is for Kostroma, but the maker's mark of АБ, I'm unsure of. The only reference that I could find for this mark attributes it to Andrei Bragin of St Petersburg, but then I saw a similar example of a salt chair to ...

Hi,
I recently acquired this Russian silver salt chair. The assay mark is for Kostroma, but the maker's mark of АБ, I'm unsure of. The only reference that I could find for this mark attributes it to Andrei Bragin of St Petersburg, but then I saw a similar example of a salt chair to mine attributed ...

Thank you very much, Jörg! Yes, I thought the same, especially given the style of the monogram, which I did not show here.
Again, I appreciate your opinion very much
Best regards,
Ron

And also: How old is this? I can't find info on Speiser online.

Thanks in advance,

Ron

Hi Trev,

Thank you so much for the quick reply. Just curious - is that mark used only by Speiser?

Regards,

Ron

Hi,
I'm trying to identify this mark and am having trouble identifying it. It reads 0.800 with three dots and an arch next to it - next to that it is stamped "W. Speiser". The use of the 0 before .800 makes me think that it might be Swiss, but I'm not sure. I can find no reference to W. Speiser. The ...

Hi Trev,

Thanks a lot for your expertise - I really appreciate it!

Ron

Hi Trev,

Thank you for that. I see the resemblance, but is it normal for only the lion and the initials to show up - there's no assay office mark or date mark

BTW, I thought that the photos were under the 8" dimension - I'll be more careful in the future

Thanks again,

Ron

Hi,

I recently acquired two of these teaspoons in the Montreal, Canada area. The mark is poorly stamped, but I think that it may read "GS" with a lion. I was thinking George Savage, but the cursive lettering doesn't appear to conform. And I may be wrong about the letters. Does anyone recognize this ...

Thank you, Oel,

Yes, I will test for silver content. I really appreciate all of your help

All the best,

Ron

Oel,

Thank you very much for the insights. The marks shown are three separate images from three of the spoons. The fourth is similar to the other two that are marked "3 H CP", but poorly struck. All four spoons are identical in form. There are no other marks that I can see anywhere on the spoons ...

I recently acquired a set of four large spoons with gold wash bowls, the stems with a figural lion head with crown and flags and a lion rampant at the end holding two shields. Three of the spoons are stamped with "3", the letter "H" and what looks like "CP". The fourth is stamped with what looks ...

Trev,

Thanks again for all of your help. I'll try to do some further research.

Best regards,

Ron

Trev,

One other thing - after doing a bit more research, it appears that these particular marks were used by Karl Kurz and then by Dingeldein. Would you concur Karl Kurz?

Regards,

Ron

Hi Trev,

Thank you very much! I should have considered Hanau. Are these copies of French models?

Ron

Hi,

I must admit that I'm often confused by French marks and these are no exception. There are three marks on either of this pair of confituriers. One is of a crowned lion on its side, looks a little like the Valenciennes town mark. The middle mark looks a little like the Paris charge mark for 1698 ...

Thanks, Cheryl!

Further to our discussions. I found this on Wikipedia:
"Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth (26 April 1828 — 4 February 1923) was a British peer and a naturalised United States citizen who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of 94 from a cousin, and held the title for less than ...