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Excellent!
Yes, if the letters are small like Mahler’s it could certainly start with MA and end with an R, while the C above and dot below explain the shape of the reserve, so that looks pretty conclusive.
Many thanks indeed to Blakstone. That’s very satisfying.

Many thanks Aguest, I’ve tried again upside down just in case that makes the maker’s name more legible, but beyond looking like a four- or five- letter mark it’s almost impossible to make out what they are. I don’t suppose it helps the identification that only one of the set of seven has hallmarks? ...

Any opinions on the town, maker, and approximate date for this spoon, believed to be Scottish, possibly Tain? Provenance from Skye, mid 18th c., but like much early west coast silver it may have been imported and if so, most likely from France. The marks are very rubbed so I've tried to capture what...

Surely too late for Marishka but for anyone else coming across this while researching FF / 20 VR / 750 marked gold; this is the Filippini brothers (= Fratelli, hence FF) of Verona. The R of the VR is squashed in the corner of the lozenge-shaped mark so easily mistaken for an A. Their mark was regist...

Many thanks AG2012 and JayT, you confirm my nagging doubts. There's something not quite right about it.
Regards,
Ionicorder

Please can anyone help identify these marks? https://i.postimg.cc/FKNY8cYn/Rococo-salt-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SKdnhs8Q/Rococo-salt-2.jpg It looks pre-1789 French to me, but others may know better. I can't see a town mark in the database that exactly matches what looks here like a leaf (possibly ...

Sadly not. Either side of the maker's mark the surface has been re-worked to receive a later, presumably owner's name; J.A.Fisher, and a date: 1851, both applied in dotted lines. My dating is simply based on the rococo design, out of fashion by about 1790 with neoclassicism coming in, and Leeuwarden...

Dauw appears to have been the go-to silversmith for the Leeuwarden Bakkers Gilde in the 1780's. With apologies for images taken in haste here is a tobacco box apparently commissioned from Dauw as a retirement present for a baker - one side shows a scene of a working bakery and the other the baker an...

Many thanks indeed to Goldstein, AG2012 and particularly Ubaranda who, I think, has solved a problem which has puzzled students of the period for some time. If it is permissible to offer links to web pages giving relevant information to help develop an attribution, here is one to a seller, Willard R...

Dear Goldstein, Thank you for your thoughts and for your useful images. If I understand it correctly you have two concerns about the Assay Master's mark; 1. that it appears to be the wrong date, and 2. that it is too poor a quality to be correct. Problem 2 is a matter for experience and connoiseursh...

Please can you confirm whether the marks on this spoon are genuine, who the assay master can be, and what the date is likely to be? https://s12.postimg.org/p363h8otp/Khlebnikov_spoon_1.jpg It is 184mm (7.5") long, and the bowl is 64mm (2.5") across, so is either a soup or a serving spoon. ...