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Hi I've had this high-grade silver inkstand for many years. Originally thought it was Indian but the poppies and marks suggest perhaps Chinese or South East Asian. Anyone recognise it or the marks? Thanks http://i47.tinypic.com/2148hdt.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://i46.ti...

Hi. I would be grateful for help with the following pre-revolutionary French hallmark on a full sized silver dinner spoon. The charge mark appears to be French provincial and I can find very similar but not quite exactly the same marks in some refs for Toulouse between the late 17th to mid 18th cent...

One last fork..... I have only posted here jpgs of the mark because it is only a fork and I wish to save you space/time. The mark I do not recognise is the stylised bird under a crown. The others I think are the Paris rights de exemption crown etc but the bird mark is one again not in my refs and I ...

Hi again. Once again, another French dinner fork this time with a mark I do not recognise. I am fairly sure I recognise the bull/cow head for Paris c1780s but the charge mark is multiple intertwined lines under what looks like a crown - very hard to read. This has resemblances to several Paris marks...

Hi. I have an 18th century French silver dinner fork. The hallmarks style tell me it is French and probably 18th not 17th century but my guide does not have the mark you can see. The top mark is unreadable. The bottom mark is the one I cannot fine. It is an anchor with what looks like a 'D' in the l...

Hi all. No point in a photo here as it is easily described. I have a watch which looks like early 19th century (but could be a late 19thC immitation) which I am fairly sure is French. I can see no hallmarks so it may be plated but there are two marks a) The maker's lozenge with a simple capital "TL"...

Hi Stewart. This is a very nice looking watch with what's called a Swiss lever escapement (so far as I can see) as you may well know. It has a certain art deco deel to it and my guess is that it dates to the 1930s but it just could possibly be 1950s when the 'futurist' style in art did generate some...

sorry the 'right' and 'left' in the text above are the wrong way around but I'm sure you get the drift!

Hi. Three silver spoons of form 18th or early 19th century but could obviously be later copies. I do not seem to have these marks in my refs (sorry for the quality of the jpgs but these HMs are REALLY small and way beyond the capabilities of my camera to get a close-up). They look perhaps Spanish to...

Thanks Blakstone. It is always good to have confirmation and your analysis was excellent including spotting a few things I hadn't thought of. Yes, for me the first warning was the quality of the silverwork, the second the marks themselves. I handle a fair bit of latter 18C French silver and these ju...

Hi. Looks like poinçon CRABE to me which is French and seen on watch casings most commonly but also on smaller items of French silver. From the style of the case I would say late 19th/early 20th century but difficult to be precise sure via a jpg.

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Hi there. For the first time in a long time I have a piece of silver where I am not 100% comfortable with the marks and would be grateful for others people's opinion. Pair of silver salts. Blue liners are genuinely old though not a great fit and may be replacements. Clickable thumbnails below. Both ...

Thanks again. Very useful. I have done a little research now on Hanau silversmithing and feel much more knowledgable (though I am still a novice!).

Rgds.

Thanks very much. I admit when I saw this dish it looked to me to be probably German or possibly Swiss in style, but I am not at all expert or even familiar with silver from those areas. I appreciate your advice and many thanks.

Can anyone help with the marks on this dish? They are VERY hard to photo and also very worn. Only one is really easily visible and appears to be a flower which is fairly clear in the JPG. The one on the far left appears to be a crown above a shield - very rubbed. The middle mark is circular but appe...

..sorry, looking again at my posting it is slightly ambiguous............ For clarity, yes the Swan hallmark is defined in several learned works such as Tardy, but unlike almost all other French HMs I know of, one sees it regularly used in circumstances that are outside of that definition. As mentio...

Sorry for the late contribution on the French 'swan', but the position is far from 100% clear. I handle literally hundreds of French silver cased watches every year many with the swan mark showing they were imported from (mainly) Switzerland or Germany. You can see it on many Swiss silver cased OMEG...

Hi again. This type were generally mass-produced and rarely signed. Incidentally, 'mass-produced' then did not mean poor quality ! Sometimes the better makers would sign on one of the bars of the movement. Can't see any here. Sometimes they are signed under the dial but you'd have to take the dial o...

I recently purchased some late 18th century French silver flatware and with them, to my surprise, can six little teaspoons. They are silver, but I cannot identify the marks. The thumbnail below with the marks can be clicked on for a closer look. The major id mark is unfortunately worn beyond readabi...

Hi Miles.

Your watch has Swiss .935 hallmarks for silver which is purer than basic sterling. It is a key wound 'cylinder escapement' piece. Dtaing these precisely can be a nightmare but from the casing style decoration and dial, I would say it is around 1880/90.

Hope helpful.