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Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:04 pm
by Francais
I am posting this for a friend of a friend. I have no idea where it was made.
The 900 mark looks Spanish, but I guess it could be Estonian, Turkish or whatever. I don't know the origin of the name INCE but I don't think it is Spanish.
I also don't recognize the style of the piece.
Two auction houses one in England one in Germany at best described the marks as continental.
Maurice

Re: Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:53 am
by R ingo
Hello Maurice,
In view of the range of brown bears the Caucasus region is a kandidat. It seems, that the third mark (makers mark ?) is written with armenian letters and means probably "D.I." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet ).
The name "INCE" I often found in the internet as a turkish name.
Kind regards,
Ringo
Re: Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:02 pm
by Francais
I think you may have it, but I am not entirely convinced. I thought Turkey also, they had a 900 standard. I don't quite read the initials as you do, but thought that a cyrillic alphabet would maybe work. I also wondered it was right side up in the photo. I notice that in Armenian K and I are basically the upside down version of the other. I also Googled gümüş, Silver in Armenian, and ince and found a young man on facebook who had both names in, rather odd.
Thanks, certainly a possibility.
Maurice
Re: Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:10 pm
by Francais
I meant to add the name in Western characters is much the same as on Russian silver, which fits the Armenian possibility.
Maurice
Re: Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 7:51 am
by N.A.
the letters armenian letters Գ.Ի. are for initials
G. I.
Re: Pitcher K. INCE no idea where.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 8:29 am
by N.A.
I see for K ince on auctions site says "probably Hungarian"
somewhere els "bohemian"