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Bears the maker's mark of Koch & Bergfeld, Bremen Germany c. 1870-1880

Hi Krisztián,

Many thanks for your confirmation of it not being Czech. I share your suspicion, but also have not found a G.D. german smith

I found this thread on this board:

https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=206709&hilit=13+gd#p206709

With a silversmith [GD] and silver cutlery bearing the Austrian 13 loth mark. It's a different 13 than the one on the candlesticks. Perhaps this is the same maker? I am not aware of ...

Good day all,

I've come into the possession of 2 silver candlesticks marked [13] and [G.D] or [C.D]. I've exhausted my library of references and have not been able to locate a makers mark or a definite region of manufacture. Any help in discovering the maker or the country of origin would be ...

In 1827 Augustine Joseph Lecocq remarried with Jean Louis Joseph Lecomte.
https://www.openarch.nl/abg:eb4c6295-8b66-9e0c-2bc7-2efb8d213ae2
She might have continued her first husband silver workshop after he died in 1825. Hence the hallmarks for period 1832-1869

Peter.


Thanks, that's plausible ...

Hi, maker's mark LD below a calipers for the Belgian silversmith Louis François Dethier, born in the Belgian city of Mons 11-01-1775, he married Augustine Joseph Lecocq in 1803, and died Mons 16-07-1825, active in Mons 1798- ca 1825.
I believe his full name is Louis François Joseph Dethier. See ...

While I can't help you with the marks just yet, as a Dutchman I can guarantee that Lieselotte is definately Dutch in origin, so as a starting point, I would narrow the scope of the search to the Netherlands and Flanders.

Hi all,

I'm wondering which silversmith this might be. The ladle is marked with the "Janus" double head and the minerva in a circle for Belgian .800 silver of the period 1831-1868. The maker's mark is a square with L-D below what looks like a caliper.
https://imgur.com/jYtE8b4.jpg
https ...

PS: The Bohrmann pieces are also silverplated. They are marked [B-Candle-B] in a cirlce in a square - [NICKEL] (For Bohmrann's Nickelide line of silver-plated nickel-alloy) and [18] for the plating. According to Nikogosyan, these marks were in use in the 1870's.

This coat of arms, which I found with the help of an Italian heraldry site, although not identical to the one on cutlery, nevertheless has many similarities, which makes one think of an Italian family.
https://i.postimg.cc/q70JGRHw/zgiacc.jpg
Also in this gravy boat, marked Giacchè, there is a ...

Giacchè is a well-known silversmith, and it is normal that he had blades made with his name for the knives he produced.
On the other hand, it is strange to find cutlery produced by three different manufacturers in a flatware chest with Giacchè's logo

Indeed, that was my thought exactly. The ...

Thank you dognose.


The crest:


The set:


Logo of Antonio Giacche, Milan on the lid:

I am unable to make the pictures show directly.

The links to the pictures:

The crest: https://imgur.com/x5cdlvk

The set: https://imgur.com/uvqDzjJ

Good evening all,

In my latest case of historic enigma's, I have acquired a 200-piece flatware chest. Most of the pieces are 19th-century and made by Manufacture de L'Alfenide, bearing their mark. Knife-blades are from Antonio Giacche in Milan. The pattern I am unable to find, but what is more ...

The trail on that leads to Allessio Cesa & Company, legitimate silver makers. Crown trademark. Any chance they were also engaged in silverplate work?

Hi Traintime, thank you for your contribution. While the matter of silver/no silver has been resolved, I am still curious about the maker of this ...

Hello all,

A final update regarding the cutlery:

I sent 4 pieces (1 table fork, 1 table knife, a table spoon and a tea spoon) to a gold-buyers office who had it scanned using x-ray equipment fit to scan metal for the alloy. The results were:

- Zinc: 74.8%
- Copper: 17.1%
- Nickel: 8%

There is ...

Good evening all,

It's been a while, but I've since done some more tests and can now confidently say that this set is a fake of the worst kind.

I've bought a new bottle of AG fluid as well as a new magnet, and these have given me the following results:

- The fluid does react to the outer layer ...

Hello all,

It might indeed be that my acid has gone bad. I've had it for over a year now, so I'll try to get me another bottle soon. Even then though, the test doesn't react on obvious metals even though it's old. Knife blades and the like stay green, and validated silver pieces turn red in an ...

Hi
very interesting. Yes, here in Central Europe you stumble across these ARG800 sets quite regularly. They also pop up on auction platforms etc.
Your set has quite a distinctive pattern, different from the normal ARG800 type. And it appears your 800 mark is stamped. Usually the ARG800 mark is ...

Hi all,

I've often seen sets marked ARG800/ARG1000/AMZ800 etc. and always knew them to be misleading knockofs, Swiss and Italian tourist pieces of cheap silverplate (not worth my time basically). However, lately I've come across a similair set marked:

[AP][800 in a lozenge] - which struck me as ...