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No matter what anyone might tell you....the USA Jensen products are NOT Jensen products, they are third tier American impostors at best. Value wise we are not supposed to discuss....but really it is like comparing a beautiful Tiffany piece from the 1870s to a Tiffany piece from Italy circa 1980....t...

Well there is zero comparison between GJ Denmark and GJ USA, the USA stuff is mostly borderline garbage in terms of value and respectability.

The mark for Joesph Cook is in my version of Ensko.

Look at Joseph Cook's mark, it seems to be a good match, circa 1785.

Okay, so who might the maker be? I have had dozens of 1700 century British items this is the first with the makers mark in between the hallmarks, is this a phantasy piece or real????

Here is what I have, marks don't look normal, with the makers mark within the hallmarks....I suppose the maker mark could have been struck and then the item could have been hallmarked???

Looks very similar to the mark of Andy Thomas.

Looks like Egyptian hallmarks to me. Folks here will be in the know for sure. My guess is post 1946 (lotus vs cat in middle mark) and 800 grade silver (left mark), the date is the right mark.

Okay, thanks. There is a clear pellet between the N and V, N.V.

Could be several different makers hard to tell by the picture. Definitely looks to be a mostly deplated low quality silver plated item.

I know the pictures are poor but the marks are microscopic and worn. The first picture appears to be the makers mark star N.V. star. The next mark is what appears to be a Minerva (800 grade). It is hard to tell for sure bought it has a counter strike (picture 3). Interested if anyone might know the ...

Try to take a clear close up picture of the marks. What you have provided so far are not sufficient.

Interesting. You have a pattern from approximately 1872-1873, you have makers marks that not used until at least 1943, which could be possible. But the director's mark of an A...that seems impossible, as that is an unknown mark, also an unknown makers mark for that period. Looks highly suspicious.

So there is no maker mark, no retailer mark? What makes you think it is coin silver...is there monograms or date inscribed on the item? I don't think the numbers in your pictures refer the year of manufacture. The pictures are not that clear but my guess is silver plate, 1960s.

Or they had that part of the watch assayed in Birmingham, as there mark was registered there as well.

It could be sterling, but it could also be just marked sterling. Interesting that it took 5 or 6 attempts to get the stamp set to mark it sterling...never really seen that on actual sterling. In addition nothing about it says anything outstanding and it has a look of silver plated white metal.

I no longer have the item in my position but it is about 12" long, by 2.5" wide, by about 2" tall. Definitely never had legs or anything as such. Pure and clean bottom. It was designed to burn incense in a substrate. My father in law knew what it was right when he saw it.

Looks German and newer. Hanau... with pseudo marks, maybe look at George Roth

Look at Unger Brothers. Your picture is not that sharp but based on the picture that is my guess.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_U.html

Really, you want to know the maker based on these terrible pictures?