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... has translated to mean "wear this for luck". The ЕП mark was harder to identify. It seems from this thread that it might belong to Jegor Pankratjev ( http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23180&start=35 ), but it would be great to hear if anyone can provide any further information ...

About 5 years ago there was a lively discussion about Egor Pankratjev and the mark SP.BURG etc....It is still a partly unsolved case.

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... ) In cutlery we can see it was used mostly on spoons, but I have also seen a ladle by a multisite of different firms, but mostly Egor Pankratjev, Morozov and now we see a Grachev. All the cutlery with this mark could date to approximately the same years 1910-1915, with the right facing ...

Yegor Pankratjev is a pain in the ass. Use the search function with "Pankratjev" and you will find a lot of information regarding him and his work. Hence you have Postnikova also look at #1261. I think your ladle is a work of Pankratjev.

... repeat, but it is known that there are some ЕП: s around the turn of the century. One is the mentioned rounded corner ЕП that is obviously Jegor Pankratjev 1874-1908. To Hephaistos’s attention that I did not say that Pankratjev did only sacral objects. What I said was that he made mostly sacral ...

... KOPF's import from Russia. Imported tableware marked with the kokshnik and this "unknown" ЕП can hardly have been made by Jegor Pankratjev. He is not known to have made tableware but mostly sacral objects mainly meant for the church. So in this case we are back to square one, ...

... the mark or what? Let’s go back to some basic facts and start with the master’s mark ЕП . It is said that this would be the initial on Jegor Pankratjev in St Petersburg. However, there are a lot of makers with the initials ЕП both in Moscow as well as in St Petersburg at that time. Another ...

... nobody seems to know with certainty about the С.П.БУРГЪ mark. I'm not either sure that this EП mark in this connection would be Jegor Pankratjev and there is a lot of unsolved and doubtful other matters regarding Russian silver marking and marks. Thirdly I have made questions to you ...

... interesting marks and there we have this strange "ЕП-mark" again. I have started to wonder whether it means something else that Jegor Pankratjev who undoubtedly also marked ЕП in an oval shield in St Petersburg 1898-1908, but....? The year 1908 was the first year of the right looking ...