Silver soup ladle, Amsterdam. Maker?
Silver soup ladle, Amsterdam. Maker?
This Silver soup ladle is clearly marked. Maked for Diemont, but I do not recognize the makersmark. Y = 1807, correct?
Re: Silver soup ladle, Amsterdam. Maker?
Diemont, Willem
Willem Diemont 1767-1842. Son of Jan Diemont, forester of the Prince of Orange in Aalten and Maria Jacoba Stumph, brother of Cornelis Leonard Diemont (Benthem 2005). Married in Amsterdam on 29 April 1790 to Maria Schouten (1765-1836), father of Jan (died 1842)
Willem Diemont (1767-1842), Amsterdam silversmith, master in 1790. Initially he made small silver work, but later opened a shop. Numerous quality silver objects were sold through his shop who always bear someone else's master's mark, his shopkeeper's mark therefore adorns the master marks of the silversmiths who worked for him. Including; Jan Buysen, Diederik Willem Rethmeyer, Hendrik Smits, Martinus Logerath. He also imported silver from England, but the guild objected to this in 1792. However, this English silver did not fail to influence the work of a number of Amsterdam silversmiths, who until then generally followed the French styles. In 1821 he left the company and was succeeded by his son. Master mark: DIEMONT.
The ladle, if you look at the quality, is not worthy of Diemont's shop mark.
Unfortunately, Diemont's mark is also be encountered as a falsification.
We are looking at fake hallmarks. According to; K. A. Citroen, Valse Zilvermerken in Nederland; Diemont, fake/pseudo shopkeepers mark of Willem Diemont # 76, Y, pseudo year letter Amsterdam # 380, pseudo town mark Amsterdam 1801 #521, lion rampant( upside down) pseudo standard mark Amsterdam/province Holland, maker's mark in trefoil pseudo maker's mark seen on serving spoons # 477/478
Below correct marks Diemont's shop/retaier's mark, Amsterdam, year letter Y for 1807, maker's mark B:N for Jan Buysen, also see the difference in the standard mark, the lion rampant. Crowned V for large items; duty mark for foreign and other untaxed objects used 1814-1893.
Peter.
Source; K. A. Citroen, Amsterdamse zilversmeden en hun merken, Jan Jaap Luijt, Het Zilver Lexicon and RKD Research.
Willem Diemont 1767-1842. Son of Jan Diemont, forester of the Prince of Orange in Aalten and Maria Jacoba Stumph, brother of Cornelis Leonard Diemont (Benthem 2005). Married in Amsterdam on 29 April 1790 to Maria Schouten (1765-1836), father of Jan (died 1842)
Willem Diemont (1767-1842), Amsterdam silversmith, master in 1790. Initially he made small silver work, but later opened a shop. Numerous quality silver objects were sold through his shop who always bear someone else's master's mark, his shopkeeper's mark therefore adorns the master marks of the silversmiths who worked for him. Including; Jan Buysen, Diederik Willem Rethmeyer, Hendrik Smits, Martinus Logerath. He also imported silver from England, but the guild objected to this in 1792. However, this English silver did not fail to influence the work of a number of Amsterdam silversmiths, who until then generally followed the French styles. In 1821 he left the company and was succeeded by his son. Master mark: DIEMONT.
The ladle, if you look at the quality, is not worthy of Diemont's shop mark.
Unfortunately, Diemont's mark is also be encountered as a falsification.
We are looking at fake hallmarks. According to; K. A. Citroen, Valse Zilvermerken in Nederland; Diemont, fake/pseudo shopkeepers mark of Willem Diemont # 76, Y, pseudo year letter Amsterdam # 380, pseudo town mark Amsterdam 1801 #521, lion rampant( upside down) pseudo standard mark Amsterdam/province Holland, maker's mark in trefoil pseudo maker's mark seen on serving spoons # 477/478
Below correct marks Diemont's shop/retaier's mark, Amsterdam, year letter Y for 1807, maker's mark B:N for Jan Buysen, also see the difference in the standard mark, the lion rampant. Crowned V for large items; duty mark for foreign and other untaxed objects used 1814-1893.
Peter.
Source; K. A. Citroen, Amsterdamse zilversmeden en hun merken, Jan Jaap Luijt, Het Zilver Lexicon and RKD Research.