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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
- Topic: French maker's mark 1809-1819
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Re: French maker's mark 1809-1819
Thank you for this additional info.from your research. Yes, it would appear that they were partners, as they both marked. But it isn’t clear the role of each. Baudin was a plater, according to the entry in Arminjon, so I assume he did the gold plating over the silver boxes manufactured by Lecoufle. ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
- Topic: French maker's mark 1809-1819
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Re: French maker's mark 1809-1819
Hello Your box was made by Nicolas Lecoufle, maker of boxes and small objects in gold and silverplate, working in Paris at 242 rue St-Denis. He registered marks in 1809, 1811-1812, and 12 December 1823, erased 1 September 1831. He died 31 July 1830. Lecoufle’s widow, Catherine-Marie-Flor Torlet carr...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Small box
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7402
Re: Small box
Hello
Your images appear very blurry on my monitor, so it is difficult to provide help.
Regards.
Your images appear very blurry on my monitor, so it is difficult to provide help.
Regards.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Sugar tongs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6989
Re: Sugar tongs
Hello
Please clean out the mark and provide an image that is in focus.
Regards
Please clean out the mark and provide an image that is in focus.
Regards
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Egg cup
- Replies: 3
- Views: 879
Re: Egg cup
Hello
Please help us to help you by providing clear, in-focus images.
Regards
Please help us to help you by providing clear, in-focus images.
Regards
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
Re: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
Hello Both chocolate pots and coffee pots can have side handles. However, if there is no opening in the lid for a muddler then it is a coffee pot. Opening the lid to insert a muddler before serving the beverage would be impractical and messy. The chocolate needs stirring before serving to suspend ch...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
Re: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
My pleasure!
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
- Replies: 13
- Views: 439
Re: Chocolate pot, Paris, 1798-1809
Hello The maker of your pot was Louis-Joseph Bouty (called Milleraud-Bouty, senior), initials LJMB, symbol a lily-of-the valley flower (une fleur de muguet). He made hollowware in Paris at 47, quai de l’Horloge. Bouty started his career in pre-Revolutionary times, registering his first mark on 23 Ja...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: German sause ladle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 247
Re: German sause ladle
Hello
In France this would be a cream ladle, used during the dessert course to serve crème anglaise or other light custard creams.
Enjoy your ladle!
Regards.
In France this would be a cream ladle, used during the dessert course to serve crème anglaise or other light custard creams.
Enjoy your ladle!
Regards.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: French maker?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 168
Re: French maker?
Hello Yes indeed French marks can be tricky, made even trickier by your out-of-focus images. The top mark, CB under a Croix de Lorraine with a crescent underneath is from the Nancy jurisdiction, specifically Mirecourt, dating to the late 18th C. See Tardy, p. 164, second row. As for the maker’s mark...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Please Help Identify - Any Leads?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6971
Re: Please Help Identify - Any Leads?
@bijoux expert I’m puzzled by several of your statements: -French 950 standard silver is “flimsy” by comparison with French silver plate. In decades of handling French silver, I’ve never noticed this. Do you have a published source to back up your statement? -suggestion that the object shown is not ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: 18th century French? silver knife
- Replies: 7
- Views: 342
Re: 18th century French? silver knife
Hello
Your knife isn’t French.
The writing is in Spanish, and could indicate a commercial enterprise.
Regards.
Your knife isn’t French.
The writing is in Spanish, and could indicate a commercial enterprise.
Regards.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 278
Re: Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
Hello Your vermeil sugar nips are made of 800 standard silver as shown by the Minerva head in a barrel-shaped reserve. The maker is Jean Devaux, maker of small wares in Paris, working at several addresses: 47 rue Ste-Avoye, 35 rue du Temple, and 6 rue Portefoin, using the same mark at all 3 addresse...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: American Sterling & Coin Silver - Single Image
- Topic: Mystery Hallmark
- Replies: 4
- Views: 267
Re: Mystery Hallmark
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- Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: American Sterling & Coin Silver - Single Image
- Topic: Mystery Hallmark
- Replies: 4
- Views: 267
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: Paris 1723-24
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1020
Re: Paris 1723-24
Hello Agree with others that this sugar bowl isn’t French. The marks aren’t correct, and the style is a “pastiche,” a copy or mixture of 18th Century styles - everything from Rococo to Neo-Classical, all in one object, with some fanciful design elements thrown into the mix, like the handles. This is...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:18 pm
- Forum: Gold Marks - Worldwide
- Topic: Hallmarks on this old medallion?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 598
Re: Hallmarks on this old medallion?
Hello Your gold brooch is French. The mount is made after 1838 as indicated by the eagle stamp. The item also should be marked on the frame as well as the clasp. Can you find other marks? The miniature portrait is not necessarily from the same period. The maker’s mark appears to be in a lozenge-shap...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:27 am
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: help determine the year of the snuff box
- Replies: 3
- Views: 956
Re: help determine the year of the snuff box
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- Sun Dec 10, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: French Silver
- Topic: help determine the year of the snuff box
- Replies: 3
- Views: 956
Re: help determine the year of the snuff box
Hello Your box was made in Paris between 1819-1838 of 950 standard silver as indicated by the head of Michelangelo facing right in an octagonal reserve, and the guarantee mark of a Gorgon head in an oval reserve. The marks of the Association des Orfèvres were used well into the 19th C, and are not a...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 1:35 am
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: Silver spoon, Country? Maker?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1693
Re: Silver spoon, Country? Maker?
You’re welcome.