Some French Advertisements and Information

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CHARLES-FRÉDÉRIC BERGER & HENRI NESME

25 Montée du Chemin-Neuf, later, 122 Rue Saint-Georges, Lyon


Examples of the work and mark of Charles-Frédéric Berger & Henri Nesme:









Member Zilver2 wrote:

This is the mark of Charles-Frédéric Berger & Nesme Henri
25 montée du Chemin-Neuf, Lyon (1)
122 rue Saint-Georges, Lyon (2)(1900)
Symbol : a chalice (un calice)
Mark entered 1889
Mark cancelled 1924


See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50659

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PLACIDE POUSSIELGUE-RUSAND - POUSSIELGUE-RUSAND FILS

Rue Cassette 3, Rue Pape-Carpantier 5 & 7, Paris. Lyon, Orlèans, Biarritz, Rome, Madrid, London and New York



Title page from Possielgue-Rusand Fils 1893 Catalogue:






Successor to Orfèvre De N.S.P Le Pape.

Founded by Placide Poussielgue-Rusand (b.1824-d.1889) in 1849, he ran the business up until his death in 1889 and then afterwards it was continued by his son, Maurice Poussielgue-Rusand (b.1861-d.1933), and then by his son, Jean-Marie Poussielgue-Rusand (b.1895-d.1967), who closed the business in 1963.


The mark of Poussielgue-Rusand Fils:


PRF

An example of the work and mark of Placide Poussielgue-Rusand:




PPR


See: http://www.925-1000.com/fx_pPoussielgue.html

and: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50656

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LOUIS-ANTOINE DROUARD

32 rue de Thionville, Paris


Example of the work and mark of Louis-Antoine Drouard:


LAD


Member blakstone wrote:

LAD for Louis-Antoine Drouard, born ca. 1756, Master 10 Jan 1784, died 19 Feb 1811 in Paris, 10th arrondissement. His workshop at 32 rue de Thionville was continued 1811-1817 by his widow, Marie Jeanne Hilaire Picard, presumably with the same mark.

See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50781&p=156564

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FRANÇOIS FRIONNET & Cie

8 rue des Quatre-Fils, Paris


The mark of François Frionnet:




Member Zilver2 wrote:

François Frionnet (& Cie)
Manufacturer jeweller & gilder
8 rue des Quatre-Fils, Paris
Symbol : a star over a crescent (une étoile, un croissant au-dessous)
Post 1838
Albert Frionnet 1911-1944, same address

See: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=50964&p=157402

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LOUIS AGUSTE TAILLEPIED

14 rue des Anglais, Paris


Example of the work and mark of Louis Auguste Taillepied:


LAT


Member blakstone wrote:

Arminjon I lists this mark (LAT, with a duck and a ball above) as that of Louis Auguste Taillepied, maker of couverts (forks & spoons), 14 rue des Anglais, registered 1801, with no other information (mark 2223). Oddly, Taillepied is not listed in any of the available Paris Almanacs of the period, but Paris civil records reveal:

Marie Louis Auguste Taillepied

Born: 20 Mar 1775, Paris, son of Louis Antoine Taillepied & Marie Anne Escorbiac

Married: 28 Oct 1797 [7 Brumaire an VI], Paris, Nôtre Dame de Paris parish, to Marie Elisabeth Lainé, daughter of Pierre Jacques Lainé & Elisabeth Antoinette Marchand

Died: 20 Apr 1847, Paris, 12th arrondissement; residence, rue St. Victor No. 76; occupation, spoonmaker

Buried: 22 Apr 1847, Cimetière du Sud, (now Cimetière du Montparnasse), Paris, 14th arrondissement)

See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51068

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BAZILE (BASILE) CHENAILLIER

Paris


Example of the work and marks of Bazile Chenaillier:









Member blakstone wrote:

Yes, both marks are that of the silver spoonmaker Bazile Chenaillier. His first mark - BC with a hummingbird above and a thrush below – was entered on 17 Feb 1807, and the second – BC with a rabbit – was entered on 31 Aug 1824. Arminjon notes that the second mark might have been his small mark, which may account for why there is no cancellation given for the first mark.

Bazile (sometimes Basile) Chenaillier was born on 13 Jun 1779 in Jouy, Yonne, the son Paul Alexis Chenaillier (ca. 1752-1814) and Jeanne Marguerite Eléonore Lorillon (b. 1753). His uncle was the silversmith Pierre Benoît Lorillon (1757-1816), and he married Anne Sophie Dehanne (ca 1786-1835), the daughter of silversmith Pierre Joseph Dehanne (ca. 1751-aft. 1808). He died on 12 Mar 1829 and his second mark (and possibly his first) was cancelled a few weeks later on 2 Apr 1829.

Four days later, Laurent Labbé entered his mark – L.L. with a rabbit – as a silver spoonmaker at the same premises, 61 rue Quincampoix, so clearly he was Chenaillier’s successor. Indeed, on 2 Jun 1831, he married Chenaillier’s widow Anne Sophie Dehanne. (The marriage record gives her profession as proprietress, so evidently she had some active interest in the firm.)

She died on 14 Oct 1835. Frustratingly, I can find no biographical information on Labbé. (Most Parisian records were destroyed during the Commune in 1870). But he probably died in or before 1852, when the business (then at 79 rue Quincampoix) was assumed by Étienne-Henri Sanoner (1824-1868). Sanoner also used the running rabbit in his mark, as did a string of successors into the 20th century: Ernest Compère (from 1868 to 1888), the widow Compère (from 1888 to 1919) and Émile Jean Baptiste Savary (from 1919).

As regards silversmiths Henri Louis Chenaillier (1811-1859) and his son Henri Nicolas Chenaillier (1841-1903), I can find no connection between them and Bazile Chenailler. Bazile was from Jouy in Yonne, and Henri Louis Chenaillier was from Souppes-sur-Loing in the Seine-et-Marne department. However, there may well be a connection between them: the two cities are close to both each other and to Paris, and both Henri Nicolas and Bazile Chenaillier were related by marriage to the Tonnelier family of silversmiths.

PS: Yes, those are bigorne marks; although they both comprise numerous insects in the design, the "patchwork" pattern of the 1819 bigornes are very different from the "zigzag" pattern of the 1838 bigornes.

Member JayT wrote:

To add to blakstone’s comprehensive information:
-The pointed bowl is a standard shape for teaspoons of the period. They are not grapefruit spoons. The pattern is called Uniplat.
-Bigorne marks were stamped as an added guarantee that the object was silver, not as a way to avoid tax fraud.

The reference for the maker’s marks is: Arminjon, V. I, no. 00478 and no. 00479, p. 85.

Member blakstone wrote:

After a little more digging, I can confirm that silversmiths Bazile Chenailler (1779-1829) and Henri Louis Chenaillier (1811-1859) are in fact uncle and nephew. Henri Louis' father, also called Henri Louis Chenaillier (1782-1853), a merchant, was Bazile's brother.

See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51547

For details of Henri Louis Chenaillier, see: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=34542&p=89865&hilit=Chenaillier#p89865

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J. FOUINAT

28, Rue du Buisson, St. Louis, Paris



J. Fouinat - Paris - 1929

Successor to H. Didout. Established in 1859.

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CHARLES BUZOT

63 rue du Temple, later, 16 rue Michel-le-Comte, Paris


An example of the work and mark of Charles Buzot:




Member Zilver2 wrote:

Charles Buzot
63 rue du Temple, Paris (1) and later 16 rue Michel-le-Comte, Paris (2)
Symbol : an Imperial crown between two crescents (une couronne impériale entre deux croissants)
Mark entered : 19 May 1835


Member blakstone wrote:

Charles Buzot
Born: 13 Feb 1796 [24 pluviôse an IV], Paris, 11th arrondissement, son of Charles Buzot & Marguerite Briet
Married: 7 Oct 1830, Paris, 2nd arrondissement, to Louise-Geneviève Lombard
Died: 9 Jun 1853, Paris, 7th arrondissement
Buried: 11 Jun 1853, cimetière de l'Est/Père Lachaise


See: http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51859

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CHARLES LORD

64 rue des Tournelles, later, 118 rue de Turenne, later, 14 rue du Château-d'Eau, Paris


An example of the work and mark of Charles Lord:








C - Bicycle - L

Charles Lord's working period was 1924 to 1938.

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ALEXANDRE WILLK

11, Rue de Châteaudun, Paris



Alexandre Willk - Paris - 1929

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M. GABRIEL

Avenue de l'Opera, Paris


[" TELEGRAM.] PARIS, TUESDAY. Last night thieves broke into the premises of M. Gabriel, jeweller, in the Avenue de l'Opera, and carried off jewels of the estimated value of 800,000 francs.

Source: Reuter's - 17th February 1885

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JOSEPH BRUNSWICK

30, Passage and Rotonde Colbert, Paris



Joseph Brunswick - Paris - 1845

Perhaps an early Elkington Licence holder?

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FIRMIN PIERRE LASSERRE

Paris



F. Lasserre - Paris - 1906


LASSERRE, FIRMIN PIERRE (French). Sculptor and Medallist, born at Barrante (Basses-Pyrenets) ; pupil of A. Millet and Albert Bréaute.

At the Salon of 1898, he exhibited : Medal of Marie Antoinette; — A Seal (St. Anthony of Padua); — 1899. Communion of St. John; — Virgin ; — Enfant du lys; — Source ; — Genius; — 1901. A frame containing 20 plaquettes and medals, among which the following : Chapelle; — Aiglon; — Marguerite; — La Perle; — Charmeuse ; — Marriage Souvenir plaquette ; — Virgo purissima; — Patria, etc. In 1902, 11 medals and plaquettes, also . 5 large Portrait-medallions. In 1903, 11 medals and plaquettes, comprizing: Birth of Venus; — Neptune and Amphitrite; — Portrait of M. Rigla ; — "Christening'' Souvenir Medal; — Harmonie ; — Head of Christ; — Virgo purissima (sev. var.); — Ecce Panis; — Salon of 1904. Frame containing twelve medals and plaquettes, representing religious and mythological subjects, perhaps somewhat over done; — Salon of 1905. Confirmation; — Communion; — Vision of St. Anthony ; — St. Christopher ; — Drunkenness of Pan ; — Rustic scenery; — Portrait of M. Rigla; — Portrait of a gentleman ; — Marriage Plaquette, &c.

Source: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists; Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint-Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900 - Leonard Forrer - 1903

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HENRI JACOB

6 rue Jean-Carriès, Lyon, later, 18 montée du Gourguillon, Lyon


An example of the work and mark of Henri Jacob of Lyon:




H - Ladder - J

Member Zilver2 wrote:

Mark of Henri Jacob, silversmith, chaser,manufacturer of ecclesiastical items and jeweller
6 rue Jean-Carriès, Lyon
after 1939, 18 montée du Gourguillon, Lyon
Symbol : a ladder (une échelle)
Mark entered 9 November 1931 and again 14 March 1951
(ref. Poinçons des fabricants d'ouvrages d'or et d'argent - Lyon 1798-1940 by Maryannick Chalabi and Marie-Reine Jazé-Charvolin)

See: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=51744&p=160992

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LOUIS BENOIT

107 rue Saint-Martin, later, 26 & 32 rue Beaubourg, Paris


Examples of the work and mark of Louis Benoit:


LB

Member Zilver2 wrote:

Mark of silversmith-jeweler Louis Benoit.
107 rue Saint-Martin, Paris (1)
26 & 32 rue Beaubourg, Paris (2)
Symbol : a holy Spirit with a crown in his beak (un Saint-Esprit avec une couronne dans le bec)
Active : 1828-1858

Member blakstone wrote:

Louis Jude Benoit

Born: 28 Oct 1806, Villeneuve-la-Guyard, Yonne, son of Stanislaus Augustine Benoit, butcher & Catherine Adelaide Courceau
Married: 5 Nov 1829, to Marie Marguerite Berteau
Died: 16 Dec 1870, Paris, boulevard Beaumarchais 46, 11th arrondissement

In 1858 he entered into partnership with Henri Gabriel Lanois (1830-1865), and retired in 1864.





LB

Member Zilver2 wrote:

The object : a sugar tong.
The woman's head facing right is the guarantee mark for silver fineness. In this case with the figure 1 in front of the woman's head, means a silver fineness of .950.
The other mark LB is the maker's mark of the silversmith Louis Benoit, who was active at 26 & 32 rue Beaubourg Paris during the period 1828-1858.
Symbol : a holy Spirit with a crown in his beak.

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SOCIÉTÉ DES LUNETIERS

6 rue Pastourelle, Paris



Société des Lunetiers - Paris - 1902


An example of the mark of the Société des Lunetiers:




S - un flambeau - L

This mark was entered on the 14th November 1905.

Noted as an exhibitor at the Exposition de Hanoï - 1902

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ROZANÉS

2 Rue de la Paix, Paris and Madrid and San Sebastian



Rozanés - Paris - 1923

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MAUBOUSSIN

3 Rue de Choiseul, Paris



Mauboussin - Paris - 1924


Mauboussin - Paris - 1925


Mauboussin - Paris - 1925

Established in 1827 by Rocher in the Rue Greneta, Paris. Taken over in 1869 by Rocher's partner, Jean Baptiste Noury and succeeded by Noury’s nephew, Georges Mauboussin, in 1898.


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YVES ROUÉ

41 Rue de la Boétie, Paris



Yves Roué - Paris - 1924

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POTIEZ

5, Rue des Capucines, Paris



Potiez - Paris - 1924

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