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Hi, I have this beautiful Japanese bottle with silver lillies, leaves and fronds applied. It's clearly signed at the base, but I'm unable to read it, so I'm contacting the forum in the hope that someone may be able to decipher it for me. I would estimate this piece as having been made in the early p...

Hello, These pictures show a ladle that I think was made by Marius Hammer in 1873 in Bergen, but I haven't been able to find any MH marks which include the combination of the 13 1/3 Loth with his mark MH and the date stamp. I would be grateful if one of the forum's contributors could confirm that my...

Thanks very much Trev for this further info. I will see whether this takes me any further.

Regards,

Silverk.

Thanks Trev for persevering on this!

I've spoken with my contact outside of the forum. He has confirmed it was made in Delhi during the 1920s, but cannot identify the maker. He also tells me that this is in the aesthetic style, in the manner of Dr Christopher Dresser. I couldn't have been more wrong about location and style! Definitely...

How tantalizing and frustrating!

Was that the one you remembered?

Silverk

That's looking promising, thanks Trev. I've been searching as well after you mentioned India, with no success so far.

If after a while there's no definitive answer I will contact an expert on Indian silver I know.

Silverk.

This small silver dish looks to be 20th century with a typical Chinese/Hong Kong design, but I can't identify a Chinese maker 'GK'. In some ways the marks look American, but of course the design would argue against that. I would grateful if anybody could help identify the maker. Regards, Silverk. ht...

I've had another look at the marks and I think it actually reads 'Janssen & Co', 'Jan' being poorly stamped. I find one Johann Heinrich Albrecht Janssen (1861-1870) actually recorded on the 925-1000 Hamburg page with the mark for H. Janssen & Co, though this is very different to mine. I wond...

Hi Theoderich,

Interesting. The spoon also has a 12 Loth mark on it, so yes he may be wrong about where Lange was working, if this is the right guy. Are you able to attach a picture of the mark for comparison?

Many thanks,

Silverk.

I've presented this spoon in the forum's German section because it came with a Hamburg spoon engraved with the same German surname, though of an earlier date, suggesting they may have come from the same family. I have no other reason for thinking this may be German. The prick engraving to the back o...

I have this rather nice spoon which I think is probably German and possibly Hamburg, but it doesn't have a city mark for confirmation. The clues are as follows, though I may have misinterpreted them entirely: 1) The reverse of the terminal is prick engraved with an early owner, 'Hinrick Mamero 1836'...

Thanks AG2012, that's rather interesting and I suppose it could be fake as I think you are suggesting. However, do they bother to fake brooches such as these when they could steal more money by faking 'higher value' objects? I wondered for a while whether someone may have overstamped the original ma...

Hi Qrt.S, Thanks very much indeed for your reply and for narrowing down the city mark and date. I asked my friend to double check and he confirms there is absolutely no other mark. I don't know how these brooches are made, so perhaps it was assayed before completion and the maker's mark was removed ...

A friend of mine recently bought this Russian brooch (sadly in an unassociated Fabergé box!) and asked if I could help discover any information about it. The last picture shows the only marks he was able to find, apart from a scratched '15X'. The Kokoshnik mark is poor, to say the least. I suppose t...

Hi blakstone,

This is very helpful indeed, thank you! I appreciate the authoritative information greatly, especially with its reference.

Best regards,

silverk.

Hi, I'm trying this again, but with a different subject heading and text in the hope that someone is able to identify the maker for me. This French spoon is extremely clearly marked and whilst I've had some success using Tardy and the 925-1000 encyclopedia, I still need help! I believe this was made...

Hi Peter, Thanks once again for such an informative response. It's not surprising I couldn't find them! I can see now that the buckle part is from Utrecht, but even examining the date letter area through a loupe I can't make out a letter from any direction. I was thinking that the different componen...

So I have another Dutch item with marks that I can't identify, I'm afraid. This time it's what I think is a late 18th century buckle with what may be two separate sets of marks: 1) The first set is on the moveable bar. These I think are for Amsterdam 1797 or maybe 1773. The maker's mark looks like '...

Hi Peter, The picture of the mark came in much slower than your text and so it wasn't there when I was responding. Not sure what was happening there. I guess the first one is about right for my mark and the dots that I see in the crescent are perhaps issues caused during the stamping process. Thanks...