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Hi Everyone,

I will be very grateful if anyone can help me date this 18K gold ring?
I am finding it very hard to identify the Birmingham Date Letter on it.
Someone told me that it looks like a 1894 "U" letter, but I am not sure if he is right?




Many thanks in advance for your help!

Dani

The maker hallmark on the ring is "E & F. B" , I think that may be- E & F Bauer- c 1902, but I am also not sure about that?



Again many thanx!!
Dani

I am not sure that the first pictures I posted of the date letters are clear enough, so I am trying now once more.
Can anyone maybe identify this letter?



Thanks again

Hi,

Your images are a little unclear, but it does appear to be the Gothic 'u' of 1894. My second choice would be the 'w' of 1896.

The maker, as you suspected, was Emil & Frank Bauer, 52, Albion Street, Birmingham.

Trev.

Thank you Trev.

That is very interesting because I didn't know that they used Gothic letters in 1894/6. On the 2 Birmingham dates letters tables I found searching online, the U and W letters of 1894/6 are regular and not gothic.
Did they use back then both regular and also gothic letters in the same years?

Many thanks again,
Dani

Hi Dani,

No, only one set of letters was used.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/dlc_birmingham.html

Trev.

Thanks Trev for the link.
I actually thought by mistake that the letters shown on this table for 1894/6 are regular letters, and only those for example in the 1830's were Gothic ones.
It seems that there are a few different styles used then for gothic letter hallmarks.


Many thanks again for the help.
All the best,
Dani

Sorry I meant to write before- "that there "were" few different styles used then". Not "are" of course.