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Hello Atlas, Your sugar basket would date to mid to late 1860s, this was when "Medallion" decoration was at the height of fashion. It is also in the transitional period when the sterling standard was replacing coin silver usage in America. Manufacturers did want to draw the higher purity o...

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Hi All, About a month ago, due to pressure from google, I changed the Forum's protocols to the more secure HTTPS from the older HTTP system. Not really necessary on a site like ours, but more secure is always better. I'd thought the transition had gone seamlessly until Trev brought some persistent a...

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Hello,

See William Reynolds of Cork in the Irish Provincial marks section:
https://www.925-1000.com/IrishProvincial_09.html

Given the design of the tongs, think they are more likely to be the work of the younger Reynolds.

Regards, Tom

A bit difficult to read against the textured background, it would help with the ID if you would describe what letters you see in the mark.

Hi Jannie,

Possibly Peter Clarke Daniel, although I'd wait for confirmation on that.

Regards, Tom

Hi,
I believe the marks are those of Lawrence Twentyman of Capetown, South Africa.
Regards, Tom

search.php?keywords=lawrence+twentyman

the same still applies to your last image, presumably of the marks

Hi Hose-dk,

Temporarily moving to Russian silver, perhaps someone here can shed some light on this Shebanov/Шебановъ mark.

Regards, Tom

Hello,
I can't speak the marks, but the cup form, decoration and construction technique all point to South American origins. For a good sampling of images of near identical cups, google - Bolivian silver cup.
Regards, Tom

Hi,
I've straightened out your coding as best I can, however the url of the second image was too adulterated to trace the original address. Please post the image of the item again.

Thanks, Tom

Hello,
Here's an older post that may shed some light:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15070

Regards, Tom

Hi, I believe your box was made by Erhard & Söhne of Schwabische Gmund, Germany, and that it likely dates to the first third of the 20th century. Here is a link to the google translation of Erhard's German Wikipedia entry: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.w...

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Hi, There existed Mano and Laszlo Latzkó, apparently court jewelers in late 19th century Budapest. The information was gleaned from: http://adatbazisokonline.hu/en/adatbazis/minisztertanacsi-jegyzokonyvek-1867-1944/adatlap/59101 further search yielded the writer Andreas (Andor) Latzko (1876-1943) ht...

Hi

It is the small guarantee mark for the provinces, used 1809-1819, form is a fasces (rotate view 90 degrees counterclockwise).

Regards, Tom

Hi Trev,

I think this may be John Vernon of New York, moving to the American section.

Regards, Tom

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Hi Ag2012, Regarding this problem, I posted the following in the "website updates" forum back in May of 2015. Foreign alphabetic characters and punctuation: The new version of the forum supports Asian and Cyrillic fonts and they should render correctly in any current/future posts. The char...