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Forgot to add that the company, as Leon Champenois, was assumed by Charles Boulanger & Cie, on 5 Apr 1899.

These companies were all successors, continuing until 1895 and all using the same device of "une nacelle". Garreau sold the business in 1834 to Etienne Courtois and retired to Val-de-Marne. Courtois' successor in 1847, Alphonse-François Debain, was Garreau's nephew. (What Courtois' relatio...

Agreed; this the silverplate mark of Ravinet d'Enfert.

Henri Emile Soufflot Born: 15 June 1858, Mongeron, Seine-et-Oise, son of Francois Soufflot & Alexandrine Henriette Dumais Married: 13 Aug 1899, Paris, to Josephine Louise Olier (1856-1925) Died: 19 Jul 1910, la Varenne-St. Hilaire, Val-de-Marne The Olier of his successors Olier & Caron was ...

Yes, Jean Louis Galliot of Lyon is the maker; the is the last of his three marks, entered around 1818. Jean Louis Galliot Born: 31 Oct 1782, Villebois, Ain, son of Jean Galliot & Marie Pitat Married 1st: ca. 1812, to Louise Duverdy (1796-1815) Married 2nd: 10 Jul 1827, to Rose Francoise Raton (b...

It has been pointed out to me that I have made an error; department 95 at the period was Vienne, which had one assay office in Poitiers (until a second was opened in Chatellerault 1824 to accommodate the many cutlers who worked there and whose silver-bladed fruit and dessert knives are a particular ...

Denis Francois Franckson died on 23 Dec 1830, age 70, widower of Marie Louise Varin, and Nicolas Auguste Franckson died on 13 Dec 1847, age 64, husband of Hugette Charlet, both in Paris (in the 12th and 9th arrondissements, respectively). There is very little information on their death records, but ...

I have to say that I'm not as certain as others that this is fake. The assay office and guarantee marks look perfectly genuine to me; as noted, the "1" was indeed on the left in the provincial rooster mark of the period. The "95" in the medium guarantee mark of this period indica...

Sorry about the typo. Note that the 1839 Almanach général des commerçants de Paris et des départements confirms the Laslier succession, under the listings for orfévres-cuilleristes: “Laslier, succ. de Rivet, fab. de couverts, envoie en province, r. St. Denis 380, pass. Lemoine 38” That the name Rive...

Victorie-Josephine Godot died in Paris on 19 Jan 1839, age 46 (thus born ca. 1793) at 15 rue de Francs Bourgeois (then the 7th, now the 4th arrondissement). She is again listed on her death record as the wife, not the widow, of Jean-Joseph Rivet. I can find no record of his death, and it seems very ...

François Pamphile Jozan Born: 31 May 1786, Paris, son of Jean François Jozan & Geneviève Catherine Coltel Married: 16 Feb 1815, Marcourt-sûr-Orne, Meuse, to Marie Anne Rittiez (1791-1861) Died: 23 Feb 1846, Paris Maker of small tableware First mark (the one here): FJ with crossed oars, register...

Émile Ferdinand Taburet Born: 17 Jul 1823, Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritîmes], son of Ferdindand Hubert Taburet & Marie Louise Adèle Fortier Married: 12 Sep 1850, Paris, Aglaë Verisgny (1824-1875) Died: 15 Jul 1880, Paris Taburet was joined in partnership by his son-in-law, George Bo...

I am quarantined myself and do not have access to a scanner, but I will get the images to you as soon as I am able. I renew my observation that new guarantee marks did not begin use in Paris until 19 June 1798. I am therefore not as convinced as you that the second standard horse head could not have...

Clapel - Ah, now I follow you; I thought you were referencing the year V marks which are not recorded in Arminjon. The lozenge marks which appear on the single year V plate are duly noted in Arminjon; e.g., #2015, Jean-Michel-Joseph Soroge, #2066, Jean-Pierre- Nicolas Bibron or #2149, Jean Touchard....

Clapel, I am not entirely certain that I understand you correctly, but you seem to be saying that Carpentier had two nearly indentical marks with the same initials and symbol: one on the the insculpation plates of the year V and which is described by Douet, the other on the plates beginning with the...

I don't think Carpentier is correct. His mark is photographed in Arminjon v. I (# 01409) and it looks nothing like the mark shown here. His mark is HEC with a blackbird, with the H and E on the left and right, the C below, with the bird at the top (and not extending down between the initials as here).

This is the mark of Albert Joseph Ernest Callé (17 Oct 1853 – after 1926) and his son, André Callé (12 Apr 1884-24 Oct 1949) of Amiens, Somme. They were manufacturers of high-quality flatware from around 1882 to at least 1957. I was not able to find a death record for the elder Callé, but it was aft...

Although I have never been able to identify him - the Bordeaux état civil are pretty daunting! - I recognize the mark as that of E. Maitraeau of Bordeaux, listed at various addresses on rue St. Martin and rue St. Sernin from 1856 to 1885.

Yes; so did I. My point is that I think we can assume this is an unrecorded - or at the very least not well-recorded - mark.

Going to throw my two cents in. First: both pieces look decidedly mid-19th century to me. If the digits are 71 and 66, then they might well be dates: 1871 and 1866. Second: the name suggests Scandinavia, and the the only Scandinavian countries at the time which didn't have strict silver marking regu...