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Herewith two figural maker's mark as example for Amsterdam; one depicting a fisherman with his fishing rod or peur; is a hook less line, usually connected to a stick, to hold a clump of worms on a length of wool. This type of tackle is used for specialised eel fishing. https://imagizer.imageshack.co...

Your images are too small. Try to make a couple of new clear enhanced images of the maker's mark and Minerva head. Use a good digital camera, macro function.

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Hi, welcome to the forum. Please show us a couple of clear enhanced images of the Minerva head and the maker's mark. Without the regional assay office letter and unclear maker's mark we only can guess. What's the value of a guess? The year letter, gothic G, indeed for 1891. The British importer Lewi...

HI Irene, thanks for sharing this information .

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Hi Martin, all clear.
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Hi Martin, Your welcome. However always show all relevant images up front! It is clearly a lute and if you yourself had Googled silver perfume bottle lute you straight away find a Dutch connection and the answer on your question. It looks like you have to tension the strings. Fa.(Firm) H. Hooijkaas ...

Hi Martin, Be so kind to show some more images, both sides of the bottle. It is indeed a perfume or eau de cologne bottle. It is a perfume/scent bottle in the shape of a mandolin or lute. What we see is the back. Do you also have the front? It opens at the end; hinge there, the cork is missing. It i...

The Hague silversmiths; Arnoldus van der Beek and Hendrik Poelman Master mark AB1 in rectangl e . See below extract Dutch responsibility marks; Waarborgholland, Netherlands Responsibility Marks since 1797 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q90/924/7R8tMT.jpg According to the above informatio...

The bottle is 18 cm long, the widened neck mouth with wide hinged cap, perhaps not for perfume. Does it have an inner stopper and is the flask gilded inside? After some research. To me the sword mark on your flask appears to be the Dutch sword mark for small silver items. The Belgian sword has two i...

Hi Martin, a little bit more information to read through; To my knowledge erasing, destroying of (foreign) invalid hallmarks in the Netherlands and Belgium was not a common practise. I have noticed it on Imperial Russian silver where the old hallmarks of the Tsar era were destroyed/erased and replac...

Paulus Arnoldus van der Beek,his sons Arnoldus Paulus van der Beek and Allert Paulus van der Beek, two generations of silversmiths. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q90/923/ldS9ZO.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q90/924/O0nV9c.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/320x240q90...

Early 18th century Lodereinbox Schoonhoven and unknown maker’s mark. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x600q90/923/Yce28c.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/923/ouUPuj.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/924/pFWbti.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/9...

Between 1900-1910


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No, set of silver teaspoons and sugar tong in original box. A (Argent )= silver fineness 800/000 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/922/QNEK3S.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q90/922/RtUvgi.jpg Wiskemann solid silver; OW + W in shield for O rfèvrerie W iskemann + W iskemann ...

Hi, made in Belgium, maker's mark OW+ shield for: Wiskemann Otto Léonard Orfèvrerie Wiskemann S.A. goldsmith. Born in Zürich (Switzerland) 1852 and died in Nice (France) 25-2-1909. His firm active in Brussels 1872- ca 1979 https://www.divaantwerp.be/en/research/wiskemann-126 The Orfèvrerie Wiskemann...

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Hi Rudolf, Believe it to be made in France. Period 1809-1819 The French rooster for Paris introduced 1 November 1809 till August 1819 indicating fineness silver 800/000, followed by the guarantee mark for Paris The head of a greyhound with dog collar is French and according Marc Rosenberg; Frankreic...

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