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Cheryl and Jim are correct, of course. As an additional note, the producers, exporters, and importers of items (silver or otherwise) made in Japan in the immediate postwar period (1945 to mid-1950s) usually preferred not leave any permanent mark of country of origin on the item because of the strong...

Khecheong seems to be the most likely candidate, and the mark does indeed appear to have been struck twice. The variance in the marks of one retailer can be explained by the existence of several masters filling orders over a period of decades. Furthermore, a Chinese silver master might have no more ...

It was meant to hold things, of course!

It is very hard to say what a box was used for without knowing its dimensions.

The mark shown is probably that of the engraver. If there are no other marks it may not be silver.

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DR

Japanese jungin mark and maker's mark of Miyamoto.

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DR

Hello Krisztián Rather unusual to see a recent pair of vases with a jungin mark but no maker's mark. I would expect they date from the period you mention (1970s-1980s) and that the maker's mark was not applied because they were intended as a state gift. The chrysanthemum seal is, of course, the impe...

---Not at all, you are most welcome for the information that I see has been incorporated into your ad on a certain Internet auction website.

The mark can be transliterated, "Wenhua."

Hope that helps.

I think there was some lengthy discussion in the Scandinavian forum, a few years back, about whether such an item was a strawberry server or a sugar sifter. It is hard to tell the scale from the photo, but it would seem to be such an item rather than a tea strainer. Not my area, so will leave it to ...

It looks to me like the bowl of a cocktail or cordial that is missing its base and stem. If it is indeed silver, then it probably had some marks on the missing parts.

That said, from the rather crude workmanship, I would suppose it dates from the second half of the 20th century.

Without a better photograph of the mark, it will be nearly impossible to decipher.

Try using a camera's macro function to take a close-up, and crop it.

Good luck.

The two characters appear to be embossed, not punched. That they are surrounded by a frame and well-centered in the medallion suggests to me that they are not a retailer's mark or a maker's mark (or chop mark) but rather a part of the design. A quick perusal of the identified marks already posted in...

I was thinking along similar lines to Trev, but feared it a stretch too far to suggest the Napoleonic Wars. While going even further out on a limb, linguistically speaking, it seems that "memoranza" may also be Portuguese as well as Spanish. A native speaker f Portuguese would need to conf...

I agree with Silverly, it looks like some form of "remembrance of friendship." While I claim no expertise in either of these languages, it seems that "recordanza" is Spanish, while "l'amytye" is Renaissance French. If the snuff box was originally a present, the engravin...

I believe that when the mark is transliterated, it is read Yiyuan. I have no information on this mark. It might be a regional or retailer's mark. This is not a mark designating silver content. The bracelet might still be silver or contain some silver, but if so I would suspect it to be of a lower gr...

One possibly is early to mid-19th century Chinese export. The Canton maker WE WE WC used London pseudo marks similar to this, along with the pseudo date letter "p." Tu Hopp's marks show the same pseudo London marks and a strikingly similar Georgian bust, but with a capital T. That said, ne...

The article notes: "In 1961, the torch and oval was redesigned with a flatter oval and a more contemporary torch design with the logo bearing the Standard or American name in the U.S. and the Amoco name outside the U.S." So the earliest possible date would be 1961 if, and only if, Amoco wa...

Japanese ginsei mark, generally used to designate "silverplate."

Please post a better photo of the monogrammed engraving or tell us what is says. Also wondering if there is any provenance on this piece.

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DR

Definitely post-1946 insofar as the Amoco logo pictured here was adopted in 1970 according to the Wikipedia article mentioned in my last post.

As everyone now knows, the writing definitely does not say anything like "silver," and the one I have seen for sale in Japan made no mention of silver but describes said item as "metal." Maybe an instance of extreme understatement on the part of a humble seller...... Very interes...