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Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:38 pm
by Betti
Hi, I'm looking for help with this silver spoon. It's not plated an has two tiny hallmarks. The one seems to be a kokoshnik looking at something like an 8 or 3. The other stamp I don't even know if it's upside down. Any idea is welcome.
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:40 pm
by Zolotnik
Hi Betti -
your spoon was made by the Polish silversmith P. Latkowski in Warszaw - as you might know Poland was at a certain time under Russian rule (History!). This is the reason of the Kokoshnik mark - left from the head is the number 84 = 84 Zolotniki, the Russian legal silver content (875/1000).
Source: private file of Polish silversmiths in Warszaw
Regards
Zolotnik
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:23 pm
by Betti
Wow, thank you, Zolotnik!
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:13 pm
by davidross
Perhaps my eyesight is failing, but I do not see a kokoshnik mark but rather the post-1920 Polish national mark for 3rd standard (.800) silver:
http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:57 pm
by oel
Hi David,
Your eyesight is perfect!
Oel.
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:30 pm
by Betti
Thank you guys, that makes sense. I took the number for an 8, but it may very well be a 3. The hallmark is so tiny, I couldn't get a better pic of it.
Re: Hallmark on a spoon
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:06 pm
by Dad
It's anyway Pyotr Latkovsky. But. In independent Poland. ))
