spoon with unknown city-mark "G"

[R ingo]

Hello,
Can someone help me with the marks on this spoon? Is the letter "G" a city-mark?

Kind regards,
Ringo

[dinio]

Hi,

According to Tardy p328, letter G in a square with cut corners has been used between 1866 and 1919 in the city of Gmünden, Poland, during the austro-hungarian period.

Hope this helps.
Dinio

[Theoderich]

This spoon looks is before 1866

[R ingo]

Hallo dinio,
the mark looks indeed like the mark of Gmünden in Tardy, p 328. But I think, theoderichs note is right, that the spoon is older. I think, it is from the first half of the 19. century.

Kind regards, Ringo

[Theoderich]

I have no answer - but an other maker
RIETMAN with mirrored N
hope, it helps
it is about from 1800

http://silberpunze.si.funpic.de/Objekt/ ... ietman.JPG

[blakstone]

The "G" here is the city mark of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The maker "SSC" is Silvester Samuel Cunz (1760-1839), and "RIETMANN" is Michael Rietmann (1782-1862).

I would date both spoons around 1820.

Hope this helps!

[Theoderich]

Thank You blakstone.
I think I need a lesson about the stil of a spoon -> age and region.
Can anybody do this for this forum?

Supported someone else this proposal?

[stecci]

The attribution of Blackstone is correct.
Style delays, like the spoon in the Swiss province Rietmann are normal.

[R ingo]

Hello blakstone,
I thank You very much.
Kind regards, Ringo