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Silver Box - obscure marks
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 12:13 pm
by ajm600
Does anyone have any ideas on this mark? Rather paltry information I'm afraid. The figure is "90". Thanks a lot.
http://www3.filehost.to/files/2006-05-1 ... MG2874.JPG(image too large for forum, click on link to view)
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:50 pm
by dragonflywink
Not really my area, but believe your box is Chinese Export 900/1000 silver by Hong Kong silver maker Wang Hing & Co., very prolific manufacturer working late 19th-early 20th century.
Cheryl ;o)
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:46 am
by georgiansilver
Concur with Chinese export but not any knowledge of makers..Best wishes, Mike.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 11:30 am
by admin
Wang Hing was located at 110 Queen's Road, Hong Kong in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries. There are a number of his pieces and this mark illustrated in "Chinese Export Silver 1785 to 1885" (pub. Museum of the China Trade, 1975).
Tom
