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hello,
I have interesting curious Mark on a Spoon. The Teaspoon was very likely made in northern Germany, I think in Schleswig Holstein or Hamburg. The Makers name is F. Schlick but the second Mark I never have seen before. I am not sure, what the mark is showing. It looks like a person, who is crawling on wooden pads or handles through the mud. But may be I have to much fantasy. I think, it is a mark of the maker and not a Citty-Mark.

I would be glad about some informations to this mark.

Thanks and kind Regards,

Ringo

This "student crossing" mark is not in Rosenberg3.
But the design looks indeed like Hamburg.

Wow; I’m jealous! This is probably my favorite hallmark, just because it’s so bizarre.

Your eyes are fine, because the mark is very nearly exactly what you see! It is taken from the canting (i.e., punning) arms of the German city of Kröpelin (krüppel = “cripple”) and depicts a footless man with wooden blocks strapped to his shins, propelling himself with two wooden paddles!

Like I say — just bizarre!

The maker is Johann Christian Friedrich Schlick, born in Kröpelin on 9 Oct 1814, the son of silversmith Johann Friedrich Schlick and Caroline Dosten. He trained with his father and assumed his business upon the elder Schlick’s death in 1841. It is not known when Schlick the younger died, but it was sometime between 1875 (the last mention of him in Kröpelin records) and 1903 (when his widow is listed in the Kröpelin directory).

Both he and his father are listed in Wolfgang Scheffler’s Goldschmiede Mittel- un Nordost Deutschlands (Kröpelin makers nos. 3 & 5, respectively) but the city mark was not discovered and identified until 1998, when it was reported in the August 1998 edition of Weltkunst magazine.

Great find!

blakstone wrote:Wow; I’m jealous! This is probably my favorite hallmark, just because it’s so bizarre.

Your eyes are fine, because the mark is very nearly exactly what you see! It is taken from the canting (i.e., punning) arms of the German city of Kröpelin (krüppel = “cripple”) and depicts a footless man with wooden blocks strapped to his shins, propelling himself with two wooden paddles!

Like I say — just bizarre!

Yes - You are very good blakstone

Blackstone! I am quite impressed! Not only the mark is peculiar, but also city arms are quite creative. :) Thanks Theoderich for posting it, and Ringo thank you for finding this gem! Indeed, this mark can compete for the top spot in the most bizarre silver marks contest.

Hello blakstone,
thank you verry much for Your interesting answer. I`m verry happy to know now, what for a mark it is.

Best wishes,

Ringo