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I've found some time ago this sugar cup, but the mark seems suspicious to me. The silversmith appears to be Bartolomeo Bernardi, but I've never seen it associated with the "five star mark". The "BB" mark seems to crisp, and the five star mark too bad. Additionally the sugar cup s...

Is one of my favourites silver (and not only) item.
Pretty rare.
Not ever easy to distinguish it from a big sugar cup with plate.
Easier if it is made in porcelain (very very rare).

Could be a "tazza da puerpera"?

homefree21 wrote:Thank you! So it is a reproduction?

No i wasn't saying that.
Just saying that the presente of M or notte Can help in the test di production

A hint could be that the signature is M.Buccellati...
is not ever signed with M.

yes holy statues crown (Mary or Baby Jesus)

Italian
Seems to be PD 30 Zaramella

when Goldstein said that the marks look authentic but the salver and engraving look too young I thought to a marks transposition but I have just a general question shouldn't the welding be visible? I mean, to do not melt everything the welding should have lower silver content, and this should lead t...

anyway not plated
the marks are the ones of solid silver because a silver sheet is used
the indication of R is applied because you cannot weight the silver without destroy the object

Hi,yes it should be 1900-1934 manufacture and north central - north east area
lion is used from some manufacturers in Lombard area and Emilia area too
very nice basket

i mean very similar shape and dispensing system

look in google for "Tabu" licorice pieces sold in a (metal) box very similar

correct observation amena, cartagloria has to stand on the feet and I apolgize. My comment "cartagloria are a repoussed silver sheet on a carved wood so the repousse work is deep and no with small details, becuse the silver has to cover the carved wood" is not correct; I was lead in error ...

I have seen another box like this, totally equal! same shape, same marks .... but with an additional picture of the inner, and the inner was in vermaille. The object is defined as jewelry box of first 900, matching with what i think, but now I want add that most probably is not a jewelry box, that m...

this is too "flat"

I think it is not a "cartagloria" but simply a mirror...it resemble it a bit but very different for me...
Antique cartagloria are a repoussed silver sheet on a carved wood so the repousse work is deep and no with small details, becuse the silver has to cover the carved wood

of course i was referring to Italian pieces...

Silvering very nice snuff box

I didn't reply before but i agree with amena
style is typical for snuff and cigarettes boxes of the first half of the XX century
here an example in gold

oh
i didn't realized before that, the tea set imagines I found, were coming from a topic already in this forum!!!!

Hi Goldstein, thanks but unfortunately I cannot see the images due to a firewall that I cannot deceive, anyway I'll try to change some settings. I was looking for Pekka Silventoinen to understand a possible style of HK from which there are no work examples. Qrt.S. so HK, when back in Finland, had ma...