please help identify this mark

[jrcannon]

This is a set of flatware that was purchased from a high end home accessories store called Loeser in Dusseldorf, Germany in the 70s. Please let me know if you have any info on this like maker, era, solid silver or not. Thanks!

[Theoderich]

it is silverplated
(90) is about 45 µm (=0,045 mm) silver on the flatware

[silverport]

»P« crowned, in a circle, and »SILKEMA« are trade marks for “plated” cutlery, made by W.A. Keune & Co., Mettmann.

Hello »jrcannon«

Welcome to the Forum.

Sorry, it isn’t Solid Silver — but only plated with Silver.

Please look here: http://www.925-1000.com/a_platenumbers.html

As already you has mentioned, Loeser was the trader, or retailer.

The »era« of this kind of cutlery styling began before the Second World War, around 1930 - and was already "out" in the "Sixties" of the XX century.

The »era« of yours example is the »Wirtschaftswunder« (economic miracle) period of Germany, after the WWII. The pattern of yours example is designed and made from about 1950 on.

The maker (place of production) was only a few ten kilometres away from the »PoP« (Point of Purchase). It is the cutlery and metal wares factory W.A. Keune & Co., Mettmann, Rhenania (now: NRW = North Rhine Westphalia), Germany.

The word trade mark »SILKEMA« could be read as a short form of »SILver from KEune, in MettmAnn«.

Kind regards silverport