Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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runlikeapuma
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Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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I am trying to identify may silverware which I inherited from my parents. I am thinking it is a Danish pattern since my family is from there. I can see a stamp with three towers and a number 59 on a spoon and 61 on a fork. I am not able to identify the makers mark but it looks like 00 or something in this shape. Can anyone help me with the identification of this pattern. Peter
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Re: Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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Danish yes and the tradion was to bye pieces as economy allowed so multipole years normal.
Name of pattern is Freja. Its made of silverplated also-
For Freja look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja
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Thanks for the help on identifying my silver service. Freja it is, and I have found an antique store in Denmark from whom I can get a few pieces I am missing. Peter
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Re: Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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I'm probably mistaken, but isn't the purity mark like one of those in this link: https://www.925-1000.com/dm_Assay.html
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Re: Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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yes its trhe 3 towers for Danish.
In this period for all of Denmark.
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Re: Identification of Danish sterling silver flatware

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Though the mark shape differs from the link sample (lower right column), Johannes Siggaard is the assay master on the 1959 spoon. The unpictured 1961 fork should show Hansen's mark. [For anyone stumbling accross this in a towers search, beware of the two-tower mark on the right. The small red text explains its' use as a silverplate-only mark.]
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