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Please help with unknown marks

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:22 am
by Scotrab
Could you please help with identifying the town mark and possibly the maker? I have not been able to find them in Rosenberg, von Czihak, Scheffler (Ostpreussen, Mittel- und Nordostdeutschland, Niedersachsen) and in the common reference websites. If they are Norwegian or Danish I don't have good references. Apologies for the bad images: my photography close-up set-up is being rearranged. The pricked inscription reads Christian Diederich Prech 1787. Thank you very much for your help!

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Re: Please help with unknown marks

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:22 pm
by Theoderich
Now- in Scheffler have been many Goldmithes mentioned- but often without images of hallmark and makersmark.
In this case we can see a "Horn" - the city ​​coat of arms of Horneburg is a horn and a castle

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Indeed in Horneburg was a Goldsmith Friedrich Esdras Klein - the man without face - he died on 15.3.1790
Ref. Scheffler, Goldschmiede Niedersachsens, p.856

Re: Please help with unknown marks

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:48 pm
by Scotrab
Thank you very much again Theoderich!
I made two mistakes: I have been looking for the *castle* and not for the *horn* and I misread the maker's mark as FFK and not FEK. It is only when I posted the photos that I saw that it was FEK, but the post had already gone. Friederich Esdras Klein fits very well with the date on the spoon. I find also interesting how in the town mark the 1 and 2 of the fineness have been used to construct the two smaller towers of the castle together with the taller symbol in the middle.
Well, we have a new town and maker's mark for the German section of the website...
Thanks again and best regards.

Re: Please help with unknown marks

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:59 pm
by Theoderich
Scotrab wrote:Thank you very much again Theoderich!
I made two mistakes: I have been looking for the *castle* and not for the *horn* and I misread the maker's mark as FFK and not FEK. It is only when I posted the photos that I saw that it was FEK, but the post had already gone. Friederich Esdras Klein fits very well with the date on the spoon. I find also interesting how in the town mark the 1 and 2 of the fineness have been used to construct the two smaller towers of the castle together with the taller symbol in the middle.
Well, we have a new town and maker's mark for the German section of the website...
Thanks again and best regards.


I have also a "Horn"- mark - probably from Horneburg, with engraving from 1884
Yor images are very good for my page - I thank you.
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