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Hi, Ovchinnikov Trompe L'Oeil boxes do not circulate in flea markets. This is an obvious fake with faked marks. Moscow StGeorge mark speaks for itself. Fakes become more and more dangerous, but fortunately they are still rather easy to disclose. Regards https://abload.de/img/20220225_2310547bjp8.jp...

dognose wrote:Hi R ingo,

Welcome back to the forum.

See: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=57948

Trev.

Such a loss! Knowledge is so hard to accumulate and so easy to lose. RIP

Most authentic Faberge that I am familiar with bears the 88 purity mark, but to that end I mostly see the higher end pieces and not the daily use silver. Also the 88 mixed with 56 gold like the perfume bottles (side note).

Soooo.....Gentlemen best guess at the original smith? Taking into account style and execution of set.

Any guess on the original smith, his hmark is on the tongs pictured.

Kurlykov hallmark for record

Last picture for condition and esthetic

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" I joined the company in 1953 straight from school. My grandfather had by then opened a business in New York. Whilst we still did some manufacturing, mostly we bought and restored in our own workshop large quantities of Sheffield and Victorian plate, which we shipped over to New York for sale....

Kurlykov but has a strike out on another smith and sold by London whole seller....

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When did Pavel Ovchinikov become a court supplier and first began to use the double eagle stamp.

Why are the punches on the decorative face and not on the bottom? It's like sculpting a bust and then carving your signature onto its forehead.

Hi - I just remember the various purchases of the oligarch Viktor Vekselberg at Sotheby's !! One hundred million.... 8 Eggs for the Tsar, 2 with incised inventory numbers!! No objections from the international "experts" !! "Pecunia non olet".... Regards Goldstein Last egg went f...

I wish it was easier to insert pictures I could post the pictures from V's book and some authentic Sazikov hallmarks.

Maybe in the future. Also the fact the pictures are not imbedded makes a lot of previous discussions useless. :(

Someone said something about a book list?

That would be appreciated.

Hi Tedim - most of the better books are out of print since dekades and only sourced sometimes in antiquariats for a lot of money. Russian-Silversmiths-Hallmarks-1700-to-1917-by-Geoffrey-Watts is an unexpensive book for the beginner (mostly a rip off of Postnikova-Loseva) - better this than nothing....

Russian-Silversmiths-Hallmarks-1700-to-1917-by-Geoffrey-Watts

It's pricey I have a large library already, so hoping for someone who's familiar with it to share their impression.