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Cairo, 800 silver, egypt, the arabic letter looks 1946?

Yes, late 19c to c1940.

I'd have thought that "rauls" is the guy who may know this mark - Zhu's speciality I think is jewellery from China I shall continue to delve - if anyone does come up with a final solution to the mystery of the mark, I'd like to be told. Regards Adrien Nice to see you here. Most collectors...

sorry, imageshack looks down for me, could you try and upload your picture again? Thank you ;)

IMHO, it's a chinese export silver bracelet made in 1970-80s.

王傣 or 傣王 more likely the latter, if so it might contain very less silver or no silver in it.

It's made by Jiujiang ( 九江 ) based Chinese silver company "Wan Yuanmao (萬元茂)". Jiujiang is a important port city of Yangzi River. Several silver companies here made westen-type of silver items for selling to foreigners, such as Tu Maoxing (涂茂興), Tu Qingyun (涂慶雲), Tu Qinghe (涂慶和), Tu Tianxi...

I couldn't see the first character clearly. The mark looks x形作. The first two chars should be a surname of the Japanese silversmith (or the name of his workshop), and the last char "作" means "make".
But I don't know it's Meiji or later. :)

IMHO, K&K should be treated as JES.

A pretty traditional Chinese silver box, the mark is 廣昌華. Without a city mark, it's hard to tell which city it was made in.

Hi Rauls Trevor has kindly sent me your image of the Tuck Chang store this morning which I obviously found fascinating. I also was fascinated by the fact you said in a previous post that Tuck Chang was started by an Englishman. I'd much appreciate any information you have about this. I was also int...

well thanks all for your input cant really tell if its to or tc will be going out to get a better lens will send more pics of these marks.Is it suitable for me to clean this piece or do I leave it be? No problem, I'm sure it's TC. I saw the mark many times, and now be able to distinguished it by th...

Hi Rauls, Many thanks for posting this wonderful image. Was there any further information accompanying the photo, a date, or address? Can enough be made out from the character marks at the top of the image to link with the chop marks found on Tuck Chang's silverware? http://i50.tinypic.com/2iw9cuq....

The Chinese mark for silversmith is 義. Both are unknown to me.

The dealer's mark TC is for Tuck Chang which was in Shanghai and founded by an Englishman.
The maker's mark 生隆 belonged to a Cantonese silversmith or silver firm.

I saw this kind of item once before, but couldn't guess its use.

It looks a newly made (after 1980) or imitated one for me.

Old bracelets, hairpins etc. are far more popular than other kind of antique silver items in current Chinese market, as a result a lot of imitated items or even fakes were made in passed 10 to 15 years.

Sure, Wang Hing 90. Another mark looks "徐俊", should be for the silversmith.

I rotate the image to make it easy to see:

It's made in German after 1886 in Dresden. If you know something about the silversmith, please tell me. THANK YOU!

Just in case you haven't seen it, recently (Oct 5) a certain auction site sold a Chinese export silver snuff box with the same set of marks. A netsearch for ""Chinese silver gilt snuff box" made by Wang Hing should call it up. This snuff box has the exact same set of import marks--JM...