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dognose wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:20 am Hi,

The script mark, which is in Jawi, an Arabic script used in Malaysia, the script translates to the word is Kelantan, a state in northern Malaysia which has a tradition of silverwork.

Trev.

Many thanks, Trev

I did visit Malaysia in the 80s, but I don't remember buying these.

I have two, tiny spoons which I think are salt spoons, although they are usually round, so I'm not sure what the pointy one would be for. Pepper, maybe? They both have the same hallmarks on the back that look like Arabic script:

https://i.postimg.cc/NftYj1yp/asian-spoons-front-650px.jpg

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This is a little scalloped spoon featuring a man's face where the handle joins the bowl. It looks to me like a man wearing a turban and with very big moustaches. It is 10cm long.

On the back is a hallmark - possibly in an Indian script - and what I believe to be 900.

Is there any way of dating ...

I have a filigree silver brooch where there is no room for a hallmark. I have spotted a tiny mark on the brooch pin, but am unable to decipher it. I've no idea where the brooch came from, but it could be somewhere in South America where my late sister spent several months exploring. On the other ...

dognose wrote: Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:28 pm Hi,

I think the mark may be 'MG'

See Ortak Silvercraft here: viewtopic.php?p=197084&hilit=Ortak#p197084

Trev.

Many thanks, I believe you are right.

I have a silver butterfly brooch and have managed to work out that it has an Edinburgh hallmark for 1985. What I can't fathom is the maker's mark. I've Googled the image with Google lens and an identical brooch came up with Malcolm Ortak as the the maker, but the mark doesn't look anything like MO ...

Thank you; that sounds feasible. My aunt was born in 1921 and later moved abroad, so it's possible that it came to me via her mother to her brother, my father.

I have come across a rather short-handled fork by Docker & Burn, hallmarked Birmingham, 1921. The handle is really short and seems out of proportion. It fits very comfortably in the hand as if using it American style to eat with, though, but what? TIA.

See pics:

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Hello. I have a gold - not silver - bracelet, but I think makers used the same marks for both silver and gold jewellery. It's a very pretty gate and bead bracelet marked with what looks like one of the maker's marks for Thomas Marples, registered in both Sheffield and Birmingham in the mid-1800s ...

oel wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:02 pm See;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiew
Kiew is the German and Dutch or archaic English variant spelling of Kyiv

Peter

Thank you.

Thank you so much for all this information. I'd forgotten to subscribe to the post, though why no earth it doesn't do so automatically for the original post author, I don't know.

Anyway, where is "Kiew". Is that Kiev or, as it's now known, Kyiv?

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I have a very small silver and bone pipe which my grandfather would have bought when he worked in Russia as a civil engineer in the 1930s. It has two hallmarks: one with XA where the X also has a vertical line through it and then 875 with, I think, a profile of a head facing right, though it's quite ...

silvermakersmarks wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 2:07 pm Hi and welcome to the forum.

Collingwood & Co it is.

Phil

Apologies - a very belated 'thank you'.

My father was given a silver tumbler as a Christening present in 1931, although the hallmark is 1925. It's 10.2cm tall, 8cm diameter at the top and 6cm diameter at the bottom. It weighs 234g and is completely plain apart from and engraving and the hallmarks on the bottom. Unfortunately, although ...