Maker/date/town and use of small sailing barge salt?

[cb505]

Please help me with the maker/production date and town of this barge and horse box/salt.

It has import marks for Sheffield 1894, Samuel Boyce Landeck.

It also has a lion on his back feet with perhaps an O or a key near the bottom. This is in a shield and stamped on the barge and the horse base.

There is a capital F on the barge rudder and horse base.

There is VS above a star on the rudder.

There is also another mark which I can't make out.

Please help.

Thank you in advance,

Craig


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[JAKJO]

Hi,
Your object is actually made by the Dutch master "VS over a star". I do not know this mark and there are too many possibilities to have a guess.

The lion rampant is the standard .934 and the key is the Dutch export mark. I can not read the date letter. The other mark, you mention, is probably the Minerva head with a letter of the assay office inside the helmet.
http://www.925-1000.com/Fnetherlands_Date_Code.html

Hope this helps!

Best regards/JAKJO
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[2209patrick]

Hello.

I read the Sheffield import marks as 1896.

Agree with Jakjo that your piece is Dutch.
I think your VS mark was used by the van Straten family from the Dutch town of Hoorn.
Jacob van Straten founded the firm in 1845. Their history spans several generations.



Pat.
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[oel]

Dutch date letter is the Gothic M for 1896

Oel
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[thejonfog]

I have a miniature horse & Carriage with the VS over a * so I assume it would be a van Straten piece too...

[oel]

Please show us an image of the item and image(s) of all the marks.

Oel.