unknown german or austrian hallmark on a spoon master TK

[Theoderich]

Which town it is?
this spoon is about from 1820

[blakstone]

Braşov, Romania, called "Kronstadt" in German and "Brassó" in Hungarian; the mark depicts the city arms of crowned tree roots. The maker is Thomas Kasten, about whom I have no further information.

[Theoderich]

Thank You blakstone


I have some other questions on other marks;-)

[Solpar]

Dear Blakstone, could you tell me the source for finding the makers mark, please. Thanks, Solpar

[asti]

Hi Solpar,

This is the source...

http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/TE ... nia_Brasov)_1820_Thomas_Kasten.JPG

[asti]

Sorry for the bad link, I'm new hire...
tray this:
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/index.php?id=13

[dragonflywink]

Hi Solpar,

This is the source...

http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/TE ... nia_Brasov)_1820_Thomas_Kasten.JPG

Heh, your assumption is a bit off.....as noted on that site's page for this mark, the information provided here by blakstone is the source.

~Cheryl

[asti]

Hi Solpar,

This is the source...

http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/TE ... nia_Brasov)_1820_Thomas_Kasten.JPG

Heh, your assumption is a bit off.....as noted on that site's page for this mark, the information provided here by blakstone is the source.

~Cheryl

maybe you right, my german is zero... sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Hose_dk]

yes it is the other way.
Theo host that site, he is doing an exelent work by collecting - rearsearching - and disply german marks.
adding the knowledge found - among others - here

[asti]

To reappear my mistake, I made a little documentation about this markings. Is easy to find Kronstadt mark in Tardy at page 65. The same information’s I find it on a Swedish forum:[/url] http://www.antikviteter.net/antikprat/m ... 1275499013 [/url] (use it with Google translator Swedish to English). The only problem ho appear it’s this: according to Tardy the mark of Kronstadt with this shape was used on the beginning and middle of 18 century, and Thomas Kasten was active between 1825-1838. Luckily I speak also hungarian and find in a Transilvania Museum study from 1908 the list of goldsmiths and silversmiths of Kronstadt, or Hungarian name Brassó [/url] http://epa.oszk.hu/00900/00979/00184/pd ... 78-387.pdf [/url] . At page 386 we can find Thomas Kasten, but more likely for this mark is Thomas Klosch, 1649-1708 .

Hope to be useful
Cristian

[Solpar]

Thank you for the link. This is very helpful!