Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks
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| 1896 ~ 1908 • The First Kokoshnik Mark | |||
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| In 1896, Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) issued an edict that reformed this old system and the Kokoshnik mark came into being. As thousands of new diestamps had to be created, there was a transitional changeover period and the kokoshnik mark did not come into full use until 1899. Until 1908, the mark consisted of a left facing woman's head in profile within an oval cartouche, she is wearing the peasant headdress traditionally referred to as a kokoshnik. To her left is the standard number and to her right are the assayer's initials which also indicate the assay office. | |||
| А А | Anatoli Apollonovich Artsybashev | Vilnius 1899-1908 |
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Alexander Virjohovsky (Aleksandr Kasimirovitch Vyrzhikovsky) (Andrzei Wyrzykov) | Kostroma 1899 |
| А Р | A. Riktera | St. Petersburg 1899-1903 |
| А Р | Alexander Romanov | Warsaw 1899-1904 |
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| А Р | Alexander Romanov | St. Petersburg 1904-1908 |
| А С | A. Solodikova | Kostroma 1899-1905 |
| Г Б | G. Bichkova | Kostroma 1899 |
| И А | Ivan Ado | Kazan 1899-1908 |
| И Л | Ivan Lebedkin | Moscow from 1899 |
| И Л | Ivan Lebedkin | Moscow from 1899 |
| И Л | Yakov Lyapimov | St. Petersburg 1899-1903 |
| И С | I. Sorotkin | Odessa 1899-1910 |
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| И Ш | Joseph Shmidyevsky | Tiflis 1903-1904 |
| К З | Kliment Anikievich Zagaevsky | Vilnius 1899-1908 |
| Л О | Liba Oleksa | Kiev 1899-1908 |
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| М О | Unidentified | Odessa 1899-1908 |
| Я Л | Yakov Lyapimov | St. Petersburg 1899-1903 |
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| Ф К | Fyedor Konovolov | Rostov 1899-1908 |
  
| - | Import Marks | 1899-1908 |
| 1908 ~ 1926 • The Second Kokoshnik Mark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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From 1908, the woman's profile is facing right with standard number to her right, on the far left is a small Greek letter that indicates the region of assay.
Regional Letters
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 Moscow |
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 Odessa |
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 Kiev |
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 Caucusus |
 Vilnius |
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 Riga |
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 Kostroma |
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 Kazan |
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 Don |
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Sources
Russkoe yuvelirnoe iskusstvo, ego tsentry i mastera - M. M. Postnikova-Loseva; Nauka, 1974 |
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