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thanks to everybody, I was looking too on HK manufacturing style and history with particular reference to the St.Petersburg time when he worked for Faberge. I only have found some modern jewelry items picture on the net and a gold cigarette case sold at an auction house but marks aren't shown(I can ...

and make a "bath" in hot water and salt?
should remove oxidation only and not polish it...

the marks look a chalice

the zig-zag is the assayer metal withdrawal

wonderful!

regarding marks history I asked to my colleague with the father goldsmith...same carbon copy history of my father in law... license as restorer, as first owner of the ID then dismissed in the 80's because it costed too much... I have to go to a silversmith of a certain age to understand... I'll come...

Hi here another similar vase, the mark, if you enlarge the picture is XXX FI

that means that the object is not properly to be defined silver plate, in theory you can remove the silver sheet.

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. What you have is a resin base covered with a layer of silver. To identify such pieces, and so that they are not to be confused with solid silver items, as they do contain a full set of Italian marks, the Italian government require some extra marks to be struck. These extra...

3. Both (2) ID Not sure what you mean... Just for clarification when I say ID I refer to the progressive registration number + province IE <1 AL> Never seen on the same object two different progressive registration number + province. What you can see is the ID mark of the producer + symbol or name ...

Before XRF, I filed the bottom of the foot and did not hit base metal. And then I acid tested it. Seems to be solid silver. I'm not aware of any other methods I could use to confirm. Ah ok if you scratched the metal and then you tested with acid is ok I was referring to XRF that only analyze the su...

neurorocker wrote: I took it to a professional today and they subjected it to XRF and it measured at around 93% silver. It is a busy piece, so it's possible I've missed purity marks somehow, but I don't believe so.

Hi
I think it is not the appropriate method...because it tests only surface, not the inner.

The fact that your father in law was registered as "goldsmith repair" makes a big difference: he is not a producer. The fact of producing some items on command does not change that. Formally he repairs or changes the shape of an object already belonging to a person. This could be the poin...

hi amena I agree. What my husband said and what is in the law doesn't match. What is sure is that my father in law was registered for some time at the "camera di commercio" as "business for goldsmith repair/restoration" but he had the laboratory where I know he made his own creat...

Regarding the decanters, apart from the fact that are identical...
are you sure that are the same manufacturer?
the one on the left is Cesa with the ID and the brand symbol...
the one on the right are you sure that is Cesa too?

Nor do I know to what extent the assumption of Italiansilver "the manufacturer uses the id mark of the retailer" is leading here. what I wanted say is that there are (at least it happens here in Florence) many small silversmiths that work for big brands. One day I was looking some dresses...

amena wrote:A retailer was not obliged to put his own mark, but the items he sold had to have the manufacturer's one. This is and was the law.

or the opposite:
the manufacturer uses the id mark of the retailer, as often happens for small artisans working for bigger retailers.

thanks amena I was waiting for a reply from you! This is was I supposed to be up to some days ago when I asked to my husband about his father. My father in law had the license and was registerd at the "camera di commercio", and had his own little shop. My husband told me that his father ow...

good morning! as first i want do a clarification regarding the id mark into the lozenge i suggested to investigate a pssible mark "province + number" because I have a sugar pot with the mark FI9 in a very rough lozenge that really seems more an oval, so I deduced that, maybe in the very fi...