An Eyeful
An Eyeful
And now for someyhing completely different..more figures and faces than I want to count. Marks on handle base at back: "78 STERLING" (spoon) and "25 STERLING" (fork). On front of fork...Lion rampant guarantee but unreadable numeral (left) and letter code (right) resembling downward-hooked capital "T" (1954?), but cannot dismiss similar small "r" marks. Don't see other marks in detail except a pentagram-like repetition in the backwall details, which I expect is just design element. Any clue as to what we are looking at?
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A bit of suspicion..cleaning the nieolo only from the marks makes me think these are re-castings made from impressions of older objects. Could this be something done outside the Nederlands and thus the simple sterling stamps? Museum issues or other?
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Ah, sorry! Pentagram should have been pentagonal-like...big difference.
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Hi, could be Dutch silver (hall)marks, standard mark, lion passant above 2 (833) or ll (835) with export key ( below the sterling standard 925). Check for more marks; office mark Minerva head and maker's mark.
For Dutch (hall) marks see:
http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32028
Please clean and show all marks of fork and spoon(enhanced clear images). Top left of the lion passant could be a maker's mark.
Peter
For Dutch (hall) marks see:
http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32028
Please clean and show all marks of fork and spoon(enhanced clear images). Top left of the lion passant could be a maker's mark.
Peter
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Hi, nothing more I can say or add. You are probably right re- cast, including the marks, hence the wrong shape of the standard mark.
Peter
Peter
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Thank you, Peter. At least it adds to our knowledge of what's floating around out there.
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I know I should make a new thread for my object, but I think I found a similar re-cast object with Austria-Hungary hallmarks....