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Radlpunze + AO
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:50 pm
by silverfan
Hello all,
big Austrian spoon with "Radlpunze" 1821 and - I suppose - F2 for a sub-assay-office of Brünn (now Brno), tax mark and maker's initials AO. Who is the maker and where it was assayed? All hints welcome.
Regards silverfan
Re: Radlpunze + AO
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 11:20 pm
by joris
This might well be by Anton Oberhauser (and his sons) from Vienna, who had a branch in Brünn from 1808 onwards (a "Jahrmarktshütte").
Re: Radlpunze + AO
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:50 pm
by blakstone
Can't help with the maker, but from 1807 to 1865, F2 was the code for the sub-office in Opava (German = Troppau), then part of Austrian Silesia and now part of the Moravian-Silesian region of Czech Republic, right on the Polish border.
Re: Radlpunze + AO
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:39 am
by silverfan
Thanks joris and blakstone.
I didn't find anything about Anton Oberhauser (1777-1827), except that he was a Vienna silversmith.
Perhaps there was a Troppau silversmith AO too?!
Regards silverfan