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Thanks for your comments AG2012. Indeed, it seems that some scientific tests are realized on archeological objects, and sometimes on objects from the Middle-Age, but not on more recent objects. I do not know if such cientific tests are not realized on objects from Renaissance, 17e, 18th centuries......

Hi, Hope this part of the forum is the most appropriate one for such a question. I am not an engineer or a scientific, but I wonder if, as of today, there is some non-destructive technics (spectography maybe) to determine the origin of silver used by a silversmith in order to make its work ? For exa...

Hi GiulyF, According to me, the 3rd mark punched closed to the French Minerva and the French marker's mark does not look like a French mark. Considering that, it could possibly be a European mark in relation with imported objects or with control of silver purity. It is just an opinion, not very prec...

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I recently visited (one) of the houses in which the famous French writer Balzac lived, and which is today a museum in Paris. A silver object is exposed with the below note (translated) : “Wiederkomm that belonged to Balzac, end of 17th century – early 18th century […] with Augsburg hallmark and mark...

Hi AG2012, Thanks for your precision. Except if there is another silvermith from Moscow working aroun 1850 and whose initial would be А Г, it seems a very good "candidate" ! Thanks also to you Qrt.S : the fact that several books are more or less "copies or copies" is interresting...

Hi Qrt.S,

Thanks a lot for your proposal.

Do you know if the name "Golikov" start with a "Г" letter when writtent using cyrillic alphabet ?
Can you please tell us your source about the existence of this silversmith : a book about Russian silvermith during 19e c. maybe ?

Thanks

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Hi, I have this tobacco box, which I believe was made in Moscow in 1850. Please find below the marks found inside : https://www.dropbox.com/s/kuwsr96uikw6vjn/IMG_0400.jpg?dl=0 Could someone : Provide me with the name of the silversmith Confirm that my reading of the other marks is correct : 84 in a ...

Thanks Zilver2

Thanks for your information Zilver2.

May I ask you the source of your information ?
Thanks !

Hi, I am looking for the silversmith name on this silver salt spoon, dated 1809-19 and made in "Province" (outside of Paris area). https://img15.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_581975IMG1154.jpg The marks : a cock looking to the right with 1 above, in an oval : 950/1000 for "province"...

This losenge-shaped mark is a French mark for silversmith used from 1798 to now. Thus, it should be silver (at least 800/1000, could be 925/1000 or 950/1000 standard) The silversmith letters seems to be L P ? but I could not identify the symbol between the two letters. As previouly sugeested by othe...

I have sent an email in French to the firm to ask if they used the A above a cross as a symbol for their silversmith mark.
We will see if I have answer.

If I am correct, on the case appears "Denis Grau / Tourcoing". See: http://www.daelgrau.com/fr/histoire The firm still exists ! I do not know if it this the original case (it may or may not be, even if you bought it at the same time as the spoons), but please be aware that Tourcoing is in ...

Jean-François-Marie SEIGNOT, insculp. 1800-01 (Dictionnaire des poinçons de fabricants d'ouvrages d'or et d'argent - Paris 1798-1838).
Thanks Maurice !

Hi,

I am looking for a silversmith, whose mark is :
J, a tower ?, a flower, S in a lozenge.
He was working during the "first cock" period



Thanks !

Thank silverfan. Do you have a source for this information ? Based on this, I found a notice that shows two marks used by the Queillé familly during 19th c. ; but even if the mark pictured (in the notice) on the left is close to "my" mark, I think is not exactly the same. Note that the not...

I agree with AG2012, except that I could not confirm the identity of the silvermith since I do not own the "Nocq" (reference book for parisian silversmith during 18e c.). Note a minerva mark (Paris, after 1838) which could have been hallmarked when a repair was made, or maybe when the 18e ...

Hi, I have a silver spit (I think this is the correct word for a metal stick for roasted meat), with the following marks : a minerva in an octogon : 950/1000 silver, Paris, after 1838 P, a spinning top ?, Q, in a losenge : unidentified silversmith (not found on the online 'Vocabulaire' base for pari...