Cartier silver and gilt chess set markings

[ciaranr]

Hi all,

I don't know much about silver, I recently got this vintage chess set in silver and gilt, the history points to the 1950s I think.
On the bottom of the pieces there are marks. I not sure what the first two diagonal aligned letters are - they might be and old fashioned "L" followed by an "M", it kind of look like a 2 followed by an M to me...
I cannot find anything online when I search.
Do folks think this is Cartier NY?
Does the 108 marking mean anything?

Any info would be great, I am very new to this space.

Here is a link to some images:

http://chessantiquesonline.com/cartier_chess.jpg
http://chessantiquesonline.com/cartier_marks2.jpg


Thanks in advance,
Ciaran

[oel]

Hi Ciaran welcome to the forum, to me it does look like someone altered/added the letters or misspelled CARTIER in CARTIFP


Oel.

[JLDoggett]

I agree with Oel, the CARTIFR stamp is not of the quality one would expect on a Cartier piece: the T is crooked; the E missing the bottom bar; The style of the letters compared to the marks below it.

I would suggest looking for a match for the maker's mark above the sterling mark, it appears to be (D, F or P, or something I can't make out) and an M in script. Most likely that is the maker.

The number may be an edition number. Do all the pieces have the same numbers?

[ciaranr]

Thanks for the responses. Those all are good points. Each piece has the number 108 printed on it base. I will really look into the Cartier signature issue.

Many thanks, Ciaran

[ciaranr]

Hi all,
Thanks again for the help I was wondering does anyone know an expert on Cartier I could reference on this?

Regards,
Ciarean