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I’m well astonished yet!

There fore in brief only:

» XI « = » Onze Dinheiro « (Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese) = .916-1,000
» DF « = » Distrito Federal do Brasil « (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
(That wasn't my source: »Tardy« 9th edition, page 88)
Time span of production: ca ...

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Sorry, but yours conclusion is on a dead end:

Please turn yours new image clockwise and then enlarge it.

The lower part, the shadow , would become left sided.

The Porto fineness mark would become vertical.

Then you would observe that the gull’s beck is on the left side .

With other ...

Now it’s much clearer: Porto Assay Office mark of 833-1,000 fineness, from 1938 onwards until 1984.

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Thank you for the new image!

Yes, the image is much better now!

There is a saying: » New brooms sweep well — but the old ones know the corners «; yours old camera too!

The fineness ...

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In short:

Yours images are so blurry that details aren't visible - that's especially important for the identification of the maker's mark. If you like to collect Portuguese items, made from Silver or Gold, I hope you would by time and while understand what I like to explain.

The Assay ...

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Welcome to the Forum.

Please do us a favour; please let’s know at least the letter(s) in the “house” like cartouche.

Reason: The images are so blurry, that I could confirm you only, that the item is maybe a cigarettes case, with a decorative lid — maybe an artist’s conglomeration of ...

»Saint Macro of Distortions«

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Thank you all for yours contributions in the » Russian « section! In the very past I’ve got the impression, if actually some body is bored, but like to enlarge his knowledge, he should read the » Russian « topics — with other words, actually there is ...

Hello Miles

As you know, in » 925-1000 « are experts of North European items, made e.g. from silver , and their marks too.

But no one of these, witch well have a much sounded knowledge of that area, have reacted.

I assume that it would be very helpful, if you would explain in detail the ...

The Vienna Convention of the »CCM — Common Control Mark«

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The Vienna Convention of the » CCM — Common Control Mark « was signed in Vienna, Austria in 1973 by Austria, Denmark, Finland and Sweden — and came in force worldwide on 27 June 1975.

1976 became new members the United ...

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Welcome to the Forum.

Please do for you a favour; that's a favour for us too:

Make a drawing of the marks (letter-mark, and ciphers). Thank you!

Here you could read a brief guideline:

http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=19420" onclick="window.open(this.href);return ...

I start to hate blurry images — maybe I should ignore from now on such questions for ever?

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Just now again I’ve got a lesson, why » 925-1000 « in his history has started to ban questions without images — we should ban also blurry images, or still ignore that question.

Well, with the ...

Hello » cerissa «

Not all is already published — and many themes would need research in local archives. That’s now one of my results of an intensive research.

The » Sacred Heart « mark is such a theme.

As I’ve already mentioned, it could be an owner’s mark — but it could be also a memory ...

French Export mark - Saglier Frères (Brothers)

Hello » ypcomchic «

Welcome to the Forum.

The images are so blurry, that my interpretation is mainly based on parts of yours description.

The in this case » house «- like cartouche looks like to be the French Export mark.

This kind of ...

2 = 800; 81 = Department Vienne, Bureaux Poitiers; -GB-

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»dognose« explanations I could confirm.

Sorry, the identity of the maker -GB- I couldn't find out until yet.

Kind regards silverport

Elkington, Mason & Co., Birmingham - 1843 onwards

Hello » PamNJ «

That's an early Elkington, Mason & Co. maker's mark - not »Hallmark«!

Please look here (left side): http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_E.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Kind regards silverport

No, no, I think that’s not the »Howler-of-the-Month« or a ‘drunken pronunciation’.

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No, no, I think that’s not the » Howler-of-the-Month « or a ‘ drunken pronunciation ’ — that’s the “ Evening prayer ” of some body in front of a locked up bottle of Whisky or whatever is tasty.

As ...

Hello »cerisa«

Please do us another favour too:

Please let’s know the dimensions: Length, Width, and Weight.

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards silverport

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In the last days after »dognose« had first published his assume on Porto, I've start to find that mark, which is assumed to be the maker's mark; or at least some similarity in other maker's marks.

There are a little bit more then 5,000 of them - but not one of them match ; also not from ...

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The here shown form of the blade is interpreted, to be a cheese server ; that’s in more or less all of the West European's cultures.

But a nearly similar form of the blade is there also interpreted to be a fish knife . Another, less in dimensions , would be a fruit knife . Or much more ...

Maybe bad news — indeed it seems that the marks possibly »Pseudo marks«?

Hello Ger

» Qrt.S « has had some doubts on the regularity of the marks on yours item — and he has then already specified e.g. the not conformity, and the missing indication of fineness in this ‘ Convention ’ like mark ...

It's a »Convention« mark.

Hello Ger

Welcome to the Forum.

Please visit the » CCM « official website of the » Convention's Common Control Mark «, settled in Geneve, Switzerland:

http://www.hallmarkingconvention.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Actually there you ...