Help Identifying these miniature silver cups

[Dreaminglion]

Can anyone help me identify / date / silver content of these beautiful silver miniature cups. I have a set of 6, they each have 3 hallmarks on the inside bottom of cup. They measure 1 1/2 " tall and opening of cups measure 2 1/8" in dia.

[Doos]

Hi,

It's Egyptian with marks from after 1948.
The marks are upside down, but they are the date letter in arabic, the palm and probably the town mark.

Hope that helped.

[admin]

see Egypt -> Foreign Hallmarks

and there are 2 good forum posts on the subject ->

viewtopic.php?t=1816

viewtopic.php?t=3151

[Doos]

Thanks for that,

I must correct myself that it is 1946 instead of 1948.
After reading the other posts (that I missed somehow), things are becomming a bit clearer to me. I took my Tardy to one of my Arabic speaking neighbours and they were very confused with the town letters. No I know why (Tardy got them wrong).
A few errors are forgiven in such an extended work .. good that we have forums like these nowadays.

Tardy also lists the "lotus" as a "palmier". A palmier would translate to "palm" if I'm correct. Does anyone have some information about that as I don't have green hands.