Leeuwarden 18th century silver belt hook Ate Jochums Offringa

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Leeuwarden 18th century silver belt hook Ate Jochums Offringa

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Leeuwarden 18th century silver belt hook Ate Jochums Offringa


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Silver belt hook for purse or chatelaine. The shield with vase (amphora flower pot) with flowering plants.
Weight 20 gram, width 4 cm, length 7.1 cm

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The maker’s mark a bird for Ate Jochums Offringa, crowned O duty mark 1806, dolphin duty mark 1859-1893.


Ate Jochums Offringa working in Huizum, born Leeuwarden 1744, registered Leeuwarden 1779, died in Huizum 1837.

Used the maker's mark AO in monogram crown and a flying bird.
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During Kingdom Holland stylized X (or bird?).
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As of 1812-1815 AO under stylized bird or oak twig in lozenge,
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1815-?1824 AO under stylized oak twig
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For Huizum see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huizum

Crowned O. In March 1807, by order of the King of Holland, a new hallmark law on the working, importing and sale of gold and silver objects, including the levy of duty on the same was implemented. Silver smiths, retailers and silver- shop holders could, for a few weeks, bring in their old hallmarked and previous made silver & gold objects and have those objects stamped with the crowned O, the capital letter O for the Dutch word 'Onbelast=duty free; free of charge and no tax duty. After this period, a tax duty had to be paid and the crowned B was applied, the capital letter B for the Dutch word 'Belasting'=Tax. After the 18th of April 1807, officially no work with old hallmarks was allowed to be sold without the crowned O, unless tax was paid and the object stamped with the crowned B.

The Dolphin mark
The Dutch dolphin mark; the 1859 duty mark for new unguaranteed objects of national origin. This mark was used on all new silver objects below legal standard of fineness, those with non-precious metal additions, and on new heavily gold or silver plated objects, as long as the average precious metal content after melting with the base metal was at least 250/1000. It was also struck on rejected objects which had been submitted at lowest standard of fineness. In that case the maker had to choose between destruction or unguaranteed marking. This mark was sometimes also mistakenly used on old and foreign objects. Dolphin mark used from 1859-1893 and valid from 1859 till 1953.

Work of Ate Offringa;

https://www.zuiderzeecollectie.nl/objec ... useum-4373

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Peter.

Source;
Jan Schipper http://www.zilverstudie.nl/ , W. Koonings De keuring van goud en zilver tijdens het Koninkrijk Holland, Waarborgholland, Netherlands' Responsibility Marks since 1797, Elias Voet en R.Visscher - Merken van Friesche goud- en zilversmeden - 1932
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