silver mark on a art's and craft brooch

Rayvenini · Post by **Rayvenini** » Sun May 06, 2007 8:32 am

not sure if this is even American, but it's a nice piece of Jewelry in the art nouveau style inlaid with mother of pear and could be jade, the hallmark is tiny so i tried to take a photo and could only get one that look pretty good, but i have also drawn the marks , the maker letters are or could be CGL and the date letter could be U or V

Post by **2209patrick** » Sun May 06, 2007 9:55 am

The marks in your drawing look like Sheffield, England, import marks to me.
They used these from 1906 to the end of 1974.
Don't know who used that sponsors mark.

Pat.

Post by **dragonflywink** » Sun May 06, 2007 3:39 pm

Your pin looks like stylized goblets to my eye, very cool, but not Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau. Believe the British import town marks were in use until 1998, pic is fuzzy but looks to me like your piece might have the 1994 "U".

~Cheryl

Doos · Post by **Doos** » Sun May 06, 2007 4:29 pm

Hi,

Green beer maybe, St. Patrick's day comes to mind.

Post by **2209patrick** » Sun May 06, 2007 4:44 pm

In my previous post I was refering to the set of import marks.
Agree that the town marks were used after 1974.
However, I thought that the 925 fineness was indicated by the common control mark on imports after 1974.
Correct me if I'm wrong about this.

Being from the Chicago area, St. Patricks green beer brings back memories. Even died the river green.

Pat.

Post by **dragonflywink** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:57 pm

Perhaps one of our British members can clarify, and I don't have time at the moment to research, but seems to me that the Int'l Convention common control mark could be used alternatively or in addition by British assay offices, but foreign items were still being assayed and marked until the courts ordered that the convention marks from other countries belonging to the convention be honored. Believe the 925-in-oval is still part of the current marking system.

~Cheryl

byron mac donald · Post by **byron mac donald** » Mon May 07, 2007 2:20 am

Hello-
with the gometric design, I would place it to appx. 1910-1939 "Art Deco" period rather Nouveau in Europe. Or 1920's 1930's in America.
Perhaps this may help along with Pat's info of possibly being from Sheffield may help you in your search.

Regards- Byron