Hello Hose_dk, Alex and Krisztián, I thank you for you comments and help. Indeet I think the most similarities in form and decoration to this spoon to my knowledge are to find in Denmark. Could the initials (with the two dots between the letters) help to localice the origin? Was this kind of monogra...
Hello, can someone help me with the marks on this spoon? The city mark seems to be from Vienna from the twenties of the 18th century. But I do not have the books from Reitzner or Neuwirth.
Hello Theo, there are some silverworkers in South Germany and Swiss in the 19th century with the name Gasser (Joh. Georg Gasser in Zürich and Hallau, Josef and Andreas Gasser in Munich. Furthermore a clockmaker Gasser in Magdeburg about 1900. But you know that the makers mark in two lines was commo...
Hello, I have a question about this Munich spoon from Bartolome Maierhofer. The spoon with its interesting facets is quite unusual from all what I know about german spoons from this time. It is 21,5 cm long but weighs more than 100 gramm(!). I would not have expected that it is from Germany and from...
Hello, I would be glad, if someone can tell me something about the maker of this spoon. I am no expert in french silver, but I was very impressed about this heavy spoon. I think it was made by Gustave Leroy & Cie. Thanks and kind regards, Ringo https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg
Hello Krisztián it is the coat of arms of the Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:15_ducats_of_Sigismund_III_Vasa_from_1617.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Polish-Lithuanian_C...
Hello Oel, I thank you for the information. It is really attractive thought, that the formerly owner was the stepson of R.L. Stevenson. But by nature I am a critical person. I just was very surprised to find three russian beakers from the 18th century with the same younger owners name in USA and Ger...
Hello Zolotnik, I thank you very much for your help.
I would be glad, if someone has an idea, what the Mr. Osbourne has to do with russian silver (when you google lloyd osbourne silver beaker, you can find two more beakers with his name).
Hello, I get this spoon with other silesian spoons, so Silesia could be the origin of the spoon Could "GF"be the city mark from Gnadenfrei in Silesia? A lot of silesian cities used letters or letter combinations a city mark. In Gnadenfrei has worked about 1800 the goldsmith Johann Wagner (...