Hello, no doubt this is Vienna. What is the symbol between the letters ? A cross, a vertical line, a horizontal line, a dot ? That is essential to pin down the maker. A pic of the object may help, too. Regards, Bahner
Hello, agree, hallmark of Stuttgart and Foehr as the maker. Foehr was founded in 1801 by Andreas Ludwig Foehr, Eduard (d. 1904) did not take over until 1858. So this might be from his time or before his time. Regards, Bahner
Hello, as has been mentioned on the German forum you contacted this looks like a modern Belgian maker's mark. But I somehow miss a silver hallmark. So I rather suspect this to be silverplate. A pic which is in focus might help. Regards, Bahner
Hello, state control of the regulations concerning the fineness used was practically nonexistent in Germany from roughly 1860 onwards (possibly even earlier) to 1888. The maker decided what he wanted to use, whether it was the traditional and more common 12 or 13 for fineness in Lot or the more mode...
Hello, what you have here is a knife to cut a certain cake, a specialty originally from Dresden, Germany. See here https://www.dresdner-stollenmesser.com/ for an explanation, though in German. The maker of the version in silver was (and possibly still is) Koch and Bergfeld from Bremen, as to the pla...
Hello, old-fashioned matches contained sulphur and phosphorus and could be ignited on ANY rough surface. You may want to read or re-read Anderson's fairy tale "Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne". One can detect such a surface right beside the hole on the downside of this. Regards, Bahner
Hello, a German origin is possible. The mark 750 would imply a production after the metric system was introduced in the German States at the end of th 1850ies. After 1888 a maker would have used 800/1000 silver fine (or higher) rathern than the old-fashioned 750. So this gives a very rough time fram...
Hello, compare here https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43709&p=125291&hilit=sah+mark#p125291 My answer wolud be pretty much the same, except this time the tugra mark is not punched well enough to identify the reigning sultan. This could be very rougly dated to the years 1...
Hello, this came out in 1933 under the name of "Alfess" and was offered as an all-purpose serving piece, eggs certainly being one possibility. It was one of three out-of-the-ordinary serving pieces made by Wellner at that time, the other two being "Backess" for cookies and "...
Hello, this is not necessarily a maker's mark. Sometimes if a piece has been worked over or restored a company or a silversmith would add this to notify the additional work. Are there really no other marks ? A pic of the whole object could also be helpful. Regards, Bahner
Hello, looks like the imitation of an old Nuremberg mark, this could be anyone in Hanau (and maybe not only Hanau) , not necessarily Gebr. Gutgesell. Regards, Bahner
Hello, the first Reiner mark is believed to be the letters J and R left and right of an anvil, the second mark used before 1914 is the Bavarian lion, sittig on top of the coat of arms of the Krumbach region. So no similiarities here. That halfmoon and crown are missing happens on German pieces and i...
Hello, I most strongly doubt that this is a Reiner mark. I do not see a ligated GR here, rather a CR or LR. Plus the genuine Reiner GR looks quite different. And I seriously doubt that Reiner ever made objects like this. But Reiner is still active in Krumbach, the company can be easily found on the ...
Hello, suspect Hanau pseudo marks and a possible German origin. Neresheimer made similiar objects. We might need a more detailed pic of the marks left of the two crowned letters. Are these marks or just scratches ? Regards, Bahner