Hi! Can anyone help me with identifying the maker's mark and dating this frame for Immaculata marble relief?
Kassel Immaculata frame
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Re: Kassel Immaculata frame
Cezary wrote:Hi! Can anyone help me with identifying the maker's mark and dating this frame for Immaculata marble relief?
this is indeed a very interesting Question.
I can not find this variation of hallmark. The hallmark looks overstruct and there are two Letters an A over M? But the hape of this mark looks noct like the other A or M-marks.
About the maker (IH) or (HI).
There was a Bijouterie-Arbeiter, Hofjuwelier (23.5.1801) Johann Friedrich Heydenreich. * ca. 1769 and he was a
maker out of the "Zunft" on 26.5.1797.
+ 16.2.1815
This makers mark is not in Scheffler and not in the book of R. Neuhaus "Kasseler Silber".
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Re: Kassel Immaculata frame
It is indeed confusing. The letters are not known in this form and it looks as if the A was subsequently stamped. The rest of the BZ is also unusual and a HI or IH brand is not yet known. It is quite possible that these marks were later applied to this mirror and have nothing to do with the manufacturer.
Re: Kassel Immaculata frame
Hi,
Letter A of this form is often seen on Vienna silver as the secondary mark; it was indiscriminately used, not as import mark, just randomly, and as said, at a later date.
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Letter A of this form is often seen on Vienna silver as the secondary mark; it was indiscriminately used, not as import mark, just randomly, and as said, at a later date.
Regards