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by Qrt.S
Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:35 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: please help me ID this old peice
Replies: 12
Views: 11860

OK, sorry that I misunderstood what was the question but I was unable to see the original mark. It shall not happen again. However, being new here, I must say that it is rather irritating that a lot of photos/pictures i old threads are inaccessible because they are deleted, why's that? Deleting the ...
by Qrt.S
Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:20 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: please help me ID this old peice
Replies: 12
Views: 11860

Thank you. You're right I cannot see the original pictures. I only reacted on the Latvian assay mark. What have I missed?
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by Qrt.S
Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:06 pm
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: please help me ID this old peice
Replies: 12
Views: 11860

Hi A rather late reply, but better late than ever. Anyway, the mark in question is a (Soviet) Latvian assaying mark used 1919-1940. I'm afraid that the link blakstone provides, shows a totally different mark. That mark was used between 1954-58 in CCCP but has nothing to do with this Latvian mark. FY...
by Qrt.S
Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:29 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Unknown russian marks on 1879 kiddush cup
Replies: 6
Views: 6756

Hi, One should be very careful when trying to define the assay master’s initials of Cyrillic BC (latin VS). It has been assumed for years that they would belong to Viktor Savinkov. However, at about same timeframe there were three other assay masters working in Moscow with more or less the same init...
by Qrt.S
Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:10 am
Forum: Russian Silver
Topic: Russian fork
Replies: 5
Views: 5382

Hi, I'm new here. I've read this site many times but never attended. Now i thought it would be about time to join the forum. A minor correction. The name of the aforementioned silver smith was Marshak. I small misunderstanding, the laying capital E is the Cyrillic letter scha not double W. J.A. Mars...

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