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What is the word in Norwegian above the flower? ::: Could it be a town name or the name of a flower? ::::

:::: See the last picture with the (F M). [zig-zag line] (f M) hallmarks? Is there another hallmark to the right of the far right (F M) in that picture? Did one of the hallmarks get cut off when you took that picture? It looks like something is there but I just want to make sure. ::: :::: The cartou...

::: The signature is a work of art all by itself :::: Assuming the letters are "E" to the left and "Z" to the right and the big "L" in the middle (last letter "Z" designates the "Zuni" tribe) ::: But that could be wrong because that last letter in th...

There is a "Robert Gordon II" who opened a business in Madras in 1793 (active silversmith 1802-1818 is what other sources claim) and his marks are "RG and a thistle" and some of his design elements are very similar to this pitcher and his "RG" really looks similar to yo...

This is the story I was trying to remember: "We extract the following correspondence from a recently issued Parliamentary Report which has been forwarded to us. The "Revenue Act of 1883," sec. 10, a copy of which we published in our December number, provides that imported plate, if fo...

Perhaps there is no interest in this object now that the hallmarks have been deemed a forgery, but does something about this pitcher not seem a little like a Colonial Indian silver pitcher? ::: I'm trying to remember a story about a shipment of silver from India reaching an English Assay Office and ...

:::: The form is very similar to a "Devonshire Cream Ladle" but if this is a traditional long-handled tea caddy then that is something new to my eyes. :::

Possibly another hallmark above the Repunzierung mark? ::: Possibly a "wheel-with-spokes" or "sun-with-rays" type of symbol? ::

To quote Blakstone who was looking at a different object: "Just to clear up a few things, this particular "papal tiara & keys" mark was created 7 Jan 1815 by edict of Cardinal Bartolomo Pacca, who abolished the Napoleonic French silver standards and returned Rome to the “carlino” ...

::: I wasn't sure if I was seeing hallmarks on those links or not, that was the point, and if those are hallmarks then I was interested in what they were. ::: ::: Since we may never know what hallmarks are stamped on the links, we won't discuss them as we lack a clear picture of them. ::: ::: Let's ...

::: The link in the chain nearest the top, does that link have hallmarks, the link nearest the top and the furthest to the right in the picture? :::

::: Do you see what I see in real life or is that image an artifact of the camera's pixellation process? ::::

You would have to think it a combination of "TAXCO MEXICO" when the first and last part of the hallmarks didn't get stamped because the piece is so narrow :::: so you have TAX [CO ME} XICO and other pieces of CDL are hallmarked "TAXCO MEXICO" so that is the most probable explanat...

::::: F.C. Ziegler Company (founded 1929) seems a likely candidate. ::::::

I've seen very faint marks + marks obliterated + marks overstamped by another maker all in the silver objects of Hester Bateman, if you have the spoon in hand and you are able to identify any detail of the "HB" in cursive then you might be on the right track :::: Sometimes you can rotate t...

Yes I agree. ::: The upright stroke of the "D" looks more like a few Channel Islands Silversmiths because of that little wiggle in the middle of the upright stroke. ::: That's why at first I thought it was Channel Islands related. ::: In a private collection I have seen a triple-stamped sy...

Is it an "LB" or a "DB" because there are possibilities from Cape Town: "Most probably the son of Lodewyck Christiaan Willem Beck and Woutrina Catharina de Vos. Known activity as jeveller or goldsmith/jeweller from 1847 to 1867 Cape Colony 1850 c. hallmark" or "DB ...

The owner of the box might want to know about "upscaled" gold & silver boxes. ::: Sometimes boxes (and other items) from other European countries are altered and have their original European hallmarks erased by someone who is trying to create a forgery. ::: Given the overall style of t...

This length of spoon (7-1/4 inches approximately) is often described as a "dessert spoon" so if you want to find spoons of similar length and shape from approximately 1750 you can just search "dessert spoon 1750" and you will see similar spoons. ::: Many of the makers from around...

If we examine the shape of the cartouche of the hallmark where the shaft meets the bowl, that seems like the date letter hallmark. :::: The actual date letter is so squashed and smushed it is impossible for me to figure out which letter it is, but we do have a somewhat crisp outline of the cartouche...

Was the test performed on the shaft of the pin and the base of this pin? :::: :::: The shaft of the pin might be a different carat from the top of the pin :::: I found this out when I had a purse marked "14k" but I had reason to think that the mesh of the purse was 18k gold so I tested it ...