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Information for old Latvian silver seems pretty scarce. This item has T cyrillic F and 7 in one cartouche with the lady head and 875 in another. There is a small H to the left of the lady head. It is also stamped in another place, where it looks like there is a decimal point in it - "87.5".

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Soviet era companies had dreadfully unimaginative names. This is the mark of the Tallinn Jewelry Manufactory (more or less) for 1957. (The last digit gives the year.)

There is no hammer and sickle mark. I have never seen Soviet gold or silver lacking that mark. It is of more substantial weight than the typical Soviet items also. Why would the 7 indicate 1957 rather than 1977 or 1927? What does the H next to the womans head indicate?

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There is no hammer and sickle mark. I have never seen Soviet gold or silver lacking that mark.

The "hammer & sickle" mark was not introduced in the USSR until 1958. Before that, from 1927, this "worker's head" mark - there is a hammer at the base of the neck - was used.

It is of more substantial weight than the typical Soviet items also.

This particular stepped rectangular outline of the "worker's head" mark indicated a piece that weighed less than 10 grams; an oval outline was used on items 10 grams and over.

Why would the 7 indicate 1957 rather than 1977 or 1927?

Because the Tallinn Jewelry Manufactory was only operating from 1953-1958. (“Jewelry Manufactory”, I should mention, is a loose translation from my very limited understanding of Russian; I gather it more accurately translates to the equally lackluster “fabricator of fine decorative items”.)

What does the H next to the womans head indicate?

It’s actually the Greek letter Eta and was, from 1946-1957, the mark of the assay office in Tallinn, Estonia. (Estonia and Latvia were independent countries between the world wars, each with their own silver marks; neither became part of the USSR until the 40’s. I mention this because I think from re-reading your initial post that you may have confused the Soviet "worker's head" mark with the similar — but distinct - independent Latvian mark.)

Hoping this clears things up!

Ref: M. M. Postnikova-Loseva, Zolotoe i serebrianoe delo XV-XX vekov: territoriia SSSR, 1995 (3rd ed.)