Damm - Poland, Prussia?

[Bahner]

Hello, see Scheffler "... Mittel- und Nordost-Deutschland". The stag of the Stolberg family in front of a pike was punched in the Stolberg region, without the pike - much like here - it was punched in Wernigerode while the city was under the rule of the Stolberg family. Scheffler documents the Wernigerode mark in a circle only, but in view of the limited information concerning that city I do not have a problem with that. To say this again: it is a gut feeling, nothing definite. Best wishes, Bahner

[jackk]

I have browsed through all books on Polish and Silesian silver i was able to get my hands on. Nothing that would look like these hallmarks. No "Damm" or Dahm" there. Few "Stock" hallmarks, but none on the same cartouche as this one. Also, I was abel to qucikly browse through a thick German hallmarks book - no success.
Well, these are few of a many misterious hallmarks that may never be identified.

[jackk]

Latest information I received comes from Lithuanian silver collector. This particular silver mark is of Lithuanian origin. Silversmith worked in Hrodna (Grodno) City (today's Balarus).
Below is a Hrodna's coat of arms.

[blakstone]

Well, I'll be Dahmed. That's it: Jacob Diedrich Dahm (also Dam, Damm, Dann and - in Lithuanian - Jakobus Dydrichas Damas) of Grodno, Lithuania. Lietuvos Auksakalyste, XV-XIX amzius, the bible on Lithuanian silver, has several examples of the mark, and it definitely reads "DAHM". My Lithuanian is lousy (to say the least), but from what I can make out he was working in the late 18th-early 19th centuries, having numerous apprentices 1791-1806, including his son & successor Teodor Albert Dahm.

[admin]

Ahhh, nice to get to the bottom of this!
Jackk, thanks for sharing what you've learned and please thank your Lithuanian contact for taking pity on us.
Blakstone, appreciate your hitting the knyga and giving us all of the details.

Now, can someone tell me which empire had their foot on the Grodno area of Lithuania at the time?

Thanks, Tom

[blakstone]

Grodno/Hrodna was part of the Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the final partition of Poland in 1795 gave control of the city to Imperial Russia. There's no record of any Russian assayer there until the 1820s, and no known Imperial Russian hallmarks with the Grodno city mark until the term of assayer Laurentiy Balbanov, 1852-1861.

[Dad]

Hi.

It is present for Theoderich. For your collection (silberpunze.piranho).

Grodno. Early 19 century. Master-maker Michaelis. It's can be Jonas Kristijonas Michaelis, about which wrote Qrt.S

( http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... lit=grodno ).

But before he became the assay master. )))



Best Reg..