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among others 12 hovandsæg is registred by this maker. Christian Pedersen Høvring from Randers - and his widow working with his son also i Hobro. Born appro 1728. Goldsmith in Hobro 1754-1767. Get royal eneretsbevilling 22/5 1782. Citienship 9/9 1782 3/4 1782 permission by county to give eneretsbevil...

in 1700 hundreds H was the citymark for Hadeerslev afterwards a bridge was the citymark. Jens Jensen Due was born 1738 working from 1761 in Odense, Flensborg and Riga, From 1764 in Sønderborg from 23 march 1767 in Haderslev gets citienship june 16th 1768 dead 1810 in Copenhagen. The hallmark you sho...

i could not find maker in Denmark. But that does not exclude denmark.
Correct with minne - but thats not original bit a later inscription. The original is the prick engravement. 100 years older.

a long shot is ss Norge -- (ss Norway)
Sailing Copenhagen - Norway - NY

So definetely we need picture of the tray, to confirm.

if the prick engravement include a D - its for datter/dottor daughter
fathersk name with a datter in front.

the spoon pattern is a variation of the pattern Empire . I even think that I have an example of same pattern. The rococco decoration on back in combination with the decoration in front is unusual. The back points back in time the front forrward. I assume thats because it produced when the two styles...

yes its trhe 3 towers for Danish.
In this period for all of Denmark.

there is a CW i Frederiksværk and he is a possibility. Johan Christian Winkler born approx 1761 works as a godlsmith --- he is proberly master at C F Classens Frederiksværk approx 1787 as a cicelør. the Veltzin is a ??? for me, but a google give a number of persons. How their connection to CW i have...

Danish yes and the tradion was to bye pieces as economy allowed so multipole years normal.
Name of pattern is Freja. Its made of silverplated also-
For Freja look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

i have counted 9 possible. We cannot roule out the some 3 letter makers are possible. Worn hallmarks. Some use 3 letter one year and 2 letter next. I have loked at makers where second last letter is l but a worn p cannot be rouled out. I looked for shape of mark - very common in this period. I ended...

a complete list does not excist. 1/3 of hallmarks are lited in a book - its sold out - in the 80ties. I could not find a match. And I have problem reading your mark. There are a few masters whoes hallmark are similar. So it could be theirs. But I cannot point at one specific. The year. Masters shoul...

the mark has an upper part end a lower half.
The lower part is year 1758 ---- i think the last figure is 8.
I have not looked up the 2 letters in the top half. I shall se later if noone find before.

Hallmark flower is from Trondhiem.

So it was russian. I was not near russia when i bought the pair. I gues that they are approx from that time - beginning 1800 ofcause cannot be before establishment of factory. My first russian item - normally i avoid. Must try to read a litle about thius imperial time. As the pair was found in denma...

there is only 1 mark.
But it sure is plate - silver on copper.

yes that could very well be the case.

something went wron with first picture of mark

What is your oppinion regarding maker?





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ssilver was divided into 16 parts. so its 13 1/3 silver and rest copper.

thats Norway 76 is datemark 1876
13 1/3 is silvercontent
The last is maker and I dont have my norwegian book now.