www.925-1000.com

Brilliant thank you for your help :)

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the help.
What do the crown and fleur de lys mean?

Hi all, Can you help me read this please? I can find a BIrmingham maker John Gilbert 1812-1894 that is a possibility and I assume the EP is electro Plated? Would the 'A' be a date mark? Any help appreciated. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c59/Battlestar_Atlantia/random%20crap/SDC19853_zps35f0b6e3...

Link seems to be not working?>

HarishNY wrote:I am fairly sure that this bowl is not from India but it is from Burma/Thailand.
Harish

I completely agree.

Have to concur with the above.
this looks Burmese or Thai to me. I would lean towards Burmese.

Ubaranda wrote:Maybe it's a Belgian product? In Belgium, in the years 1869-1942 often was used mark "800" without legal assay marks.
Look here: http://www.modernsilver.com/Belgianartdeco.htm

Hi Ubaranda,
Just had a look and I think that's very likely.
Thank you for the help. Appreciated.
Best
Gene

Hi Trev,

Thanks for the help. I guess it might remain unidentified in that case.
:(

ATB
Gene

Come on peeps. Somebody must have some experience of Sudanese silverwork?

Appologies to admin for posting link.
Picture also shows site address, so if you think innapropriate please delete.

OP, if you google 'Mandau' you will see various slight variations. Your's has the distinctive 'horns' on the underside of the blade near the hilt.

Hi Cheita25 Here's a mandau of the basic type that yours appears to be following. There are many slight variations, but I think this one illustrates the defining features that allows me to identify your brooch as being a depiction of one. Picture borrowed from (admin edit - see Posting Requirements ...

Hi Dognose. Must have been a glitch yesterday, it's showing for me now. The reason I wanted to see the whole item is that my primary interest is in ethnographic and antique arms/armour. So, to try and possibly point you in the right direction ;) You brooch seems to be based on a type of sword called...

Nice try but..... However, hate to say this, but a magnet does not react on stainless steel- It is not the same as iron. LOl, yes the magnet shouldn't react on (high quality) stainless steel. It does react on this, it does the 'slow slide' that it does on all my silver. As I said, I know the neodym...

Can't find the edit button.
Click the picture to see a 5 second clip of me sliding a magnet round in it.

I know it's not exactly scientific ;)

If and I say if your object is silver, you can exclude every Scandinavian country including Finland as a possibly country of origin. The fineness of 800 would be below legal standard in each of those countries (minimum 830/1000). In addition, the mark is not even close to an official silver mark in...

The picture of the entire piece isn't showing for me.
Seeing the 'front' of the piece might be the clue where to start?

Hi All, Bought this for Mrs Atlantia some years ago as it's 'modern' look and clean simple lines have a clean uncluttered appeal. But as it's outside of my ethnic/eastern silver collection I never really tried to find out anything about it. Anyway, thought you peeps might be able to tell me somethin...

Anyone have any thoughts?

The style of the decoration looks Iranian, so that would fit.