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That's a Japanese jungin silver mark.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html

Regards
David R

Fred,

Many thanks for the follow up post, and all best wishes for continued success in identifying Japanese damascene makers' marks.

David R

Much can be learned by taking the time to read past posts like this one:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=35611

David R.

Hi Ubaranda

I believe it says "Addis Ababa." You can check for yourself by looking at a map of Ethiopia written in Amharic.

Regards,
DR

Many silver marks are obvious, once you know where to look.

We've all had some a-ha moments that leave us feeling a bit silly.

Cheers,
DR

Welcome to the Forums.

It is made by Dunkirk. The mark can be found on this page:

http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_D2.html

Regards,
DR

Hi Trev,

Hard to tell for sure, but if the center mark is a lotus flower, wouldn't the date be post-1946?

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DR

I have never seen this Techu mark, either. For that matter, "Solid Silver" seems a bit odd on CES. I wonder if both pieces are Straits silver. The flower border looks to my eye more like a Straits motif than CES, and there are known Straits examples of the dragon-chasing-pearl. More of an ...

Based on a single photograph of the marks, there's really not much to say. I guess it's 20th century.

DR

From a Tianjin maker whose name can be phoneticized San Yi.

DR

Hi Fred Yes of course, based on the size, it would be a cricket cage. The Neifu mark was first applied at Jingdezhen on Chinese export porcelain commissioned by the Vietnamese court in the 18th century, but as with Chinese marks designating an imperial connection, the Neifu mark was copied locally i...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a well-taken photo must be worth a million. That is 內府 (Neifu, literally "inner court") a mark commonly found on Chinese porcelain, pottery, brass and metal work bound for what is now Vietnam. This mark was used on porcelain as early as the 18th cent...

From your photo, which only shows the interior of the back cover of pocket watch case, it will be impossible to say where the watch was made. To identify the maker and country of manufacture, marks on the dial and more importantly, the movement, are crucial. That said, what I see in the photo is an ...

Yes, it looks like there would have been a third piece to complete the Fu, Lu, Shou set, and it would have been Lu ( 禄 "prosperity"). Your photo shows Shou on the left and Fu on the right. For those readers whose computers cannot reproduce Chinese characters, Wikipedia has a good article t...

We have seen a few logo marks like this before, but had no luck at all in tracking them down. The logo mark is the classic "three-peaked Fuji" with what appears to be a fence or possibly a stylized version of the character 井("well," as in a wishing well). I know of no resource in...

The mark is very hard to read, it looks to me like the ancient Shang numerals for 120, rather than a maker's mark per se. Shang numerals were sometimes used by merchants or craftspeople as an in-house code. Someone else may provide a more satisfactory answer, in particular if he or she could examine...

To hazard a guess, I believe that is one version of the sign for the zodiac symbol Virgo.

The maker's mark is too far gone to read, but perhaps by searching for similar zodiac rings, you might find one with a clearer maker's mark and make an attribution.

Regards
DR

I agree with Trev, what I see in the photo are typical Chinese pseudo marks. The lion rampant here reminds me of regional British marks, such as those seen on Exeter flatware of the first decades of the 19th century. The "duty mark" is a bit warped and misshapen, but similar grotesques are...

That's an interesting observation about the manufacture of the bowl. I am not very knowledgeable about repousse techniques, but there may be some insights from the articles posted in the Contributors' Notes under the topic Chinese Export Silver and the Far East Trade. For that matter, there are othe...

Hi Matt, The spoon has Chinese marks, it may be from China or more likely from SE Asia or some other part of Asia where Chinese characters are used. The marks are quite similar to those in this earlier post about a bracelet: 925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=36403 That said, the marks on t...