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Hi Etranger, Hi all - after so many ugly and absurd ikons - here is an authentic one. For better understanding I show all parts of it and how they are marked properly and according to the laws. If the shown marks are missing or look fishy - it is a fake. It is as simple as that. If you see a icon wi...

Hi Etranger - we both new that much more fakes than authentic pieces circulate worldwide. I am not the "super fake watcher" who see only fakes around him. Members on this site with year long experience and knowledge just want to stop the unknowing and naive or just in good faith to buy on ...

Hi Etranger -

the marks!

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Postnikov

Hi piette -

the spoon is OK, it is "real" niello, the marks fit and are as thex should be.
Congratulation!

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Postnikov

Hi Etranger -

again a fake - in Hollywoodstyle!
Please read the article about Khlebnikov and his marks in this forum! As far as I know, Khlebnikov never made oklads.... but his name is good to sell to ignorant customers. Easy business!

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Postnikov

Hi Etranger -

thanks for the translation!

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Postnikov

Hi Etranger-

again a fake!

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Postnikov

Hi Etranger - I do not expect that you are a clairvoyant - I just thought you are interested what it is and how it is made by the fakers. I really do not know why you post only fakes which you have in your files? Are you collecting fakes? You can do me a favour: please translate or explain the words...

Hi piette -

for the different abbreviations of Russian Museums, please look at PL page 357!
the two words i can not translate, something with spoons....

We have to ask Etranger.

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Postnikov

Hi Etranger -

this is the typical copper galvano - plastic oklad with simple galvano-plastic enamel clausonné and an artificial craquelé of the painting.
Nice fake icon!

By the way. can you show us some authentic Russian silver? Always fakes is very boring...

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Postnikov

Hi piette - you only find the Imperial Eagle from the year 1881 on, the year when the firm was granted the title of Court Supplier and the right to include The Imperial Double-Headed Eagle in its trade-mark. http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd334/Postnicov/P1010944.jpg http://i529.photobucket.com/...

Hi Etranger - no reason to get angry... If you have the usual literatur you might have noticed that the chapters of assaymasters are rather unclear - you see many assayer who worked in three different cities at the same time. That is nonsense - but one author copies from the other. Some people try t...

Hi piette -

I have a secret information only for you: he went icefishing in winter and drank umbrella drinks in some beach bars in summer (this information is confidental!!).

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Postnikov

Hi piette -

the mark you are looking for is his brand, very hard to decipher, but it looks like that:





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Postnikov

Hi Etranger - I will answer the question you asked piette (sorry piette): Hallmarking was as you might know a very, very strict business in Russia! Many files with names and dates exist - many have been destroyed and are lost. Serious international collectors communicate together, like we on the for...

Hi Etranger - piette is absolute right! If the assayer on duty Lev Olks was not in Moscow at that year - he could not have assayed the object - also the object is a fake! Experience in the last month have shown that silver assayed by L.Oleks + the funny St. Georg (ant) is always a fake. Observation ...

Hi jwlynn and all - here some more informations about the wellknown firm of Khlebnikov: Khlebnikov The firm was foundedin1867 by Ivan Petrovich Khlebnikov in St. Petersburg In 1871 the whole business was transferred to Moscow, where it survived till 1917. It was one of the more distinguished in Russ...

Hi -

please try to post better (larger) detail photos, so we can explain the single marks. On the first glance your objects look authentic - but with better photos we can see exactly what it is. Unengraved cartouches are common - it was a matter of money, time and personal taste.

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Postnikov

Hi jwlynn - In spite of the very bad detail photos one can say the following (sorry for repeating part of what piette wrote already): All 3 objects are from Ivan Khlebnikov, a famous Russian silversmith and Court jeweller. The used technique (enamel en plein) is charakteristic for him. This objects ...

Hi Etranger - as far as I now a set consists of 6 spoons. If you have 12 , you have every motive twice. Sometimes you get no complete set but a set made out of different spoons - so you have several motives two or three times. That is not nice but can happen. Fakes have normal complete sets of motiv...