Silver Dish - Help With marks please?

[argentregime]

Can anyone help with the marks on this dish? They are VERY hard to photo and also very worn. Only one is really easily visible and appears to be a flower which is fairly clear in the JPG.

The one on the far left appears to be a crown above a shield - very rubbed. The middle mark is circular but appears to be various ines that make no obvious pattern to my eye.

Thanks.


http://www3.filehost.to/files/2006-09-2 ... C08719.JPG

[Bahner]

Hello, the style cries out >Hanau<, first half of the 20ieth century. The mark on the right hand side is very much like a mark used by Carl Kurz from Hanau. The other marks are most likely just pseudo marks. Best wishes, Bahner

[argentregime]

Thanks very much. I admit when I saw this dish it looked to me to be probably German or possibly Swiss in style, but I am not at all expert or even familiar with silver from those areas. I appreciate your advice and many thanks.

[blakstone]

Definitely Hanau pseudo-marks, and definitely those of J. D. Schleissner & Söhne.

[argentregime]

Thanks again. Very useful. I have done a little research now on Hanau silversmithing and feel much more knowledgable (though I am still a novice!).

Rgds.