unknown "P"-mark on al lancette spoon

[R ingo]

Hello,
knows someone, whether the "P"-mark is e city mark and what city it is?

Kind regards,
Ringo

[Theoderich]

Could it be Parchim in Germany?

[JAKJO]

Hi,

We are lucky!

It is Penzlin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin ("P" in a square #523) and the maker IFG (IFG in a square # 525) is Johann Friedrich Theodor Gotthardt # 2, he married as a gold- and silverworker in 1824.

Wolfgang Scheffler (1980): Goldschmiede Mittel- und Nordost-Deutschlands: Von Wernigerode bis Lauenburg in Pommern: Daten, Werke, Zeichen. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter

Best regards/JAKJO

[R ingo]

Hallo JAKJO,
I thank You very much for Your Help. Indeet I have the spoon from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Kind regards,
Ringo

[Theoderich]

Thank You JAKJO
Have You an image of a mark of Parchim (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) from the middle of 19. Century?

[JAKJO]

Hi,

It was a very qualified presumption! The mark is nearly identical.

Here is the Parchim an der Elde mark reproduced in Scheffler as #502 from a church silver item from The S. Marienkirche in Parchim by Johann Heinrich MICHAEL with an engraving 1847. Scheffler also mentions a "Crowned P" #501) on a church silver piece by Michael engraved 1813.




Scheffler has listed Steinman (Steinmann) as #20, mark #517 as a Parchim silversmith, but he is not sure, the mark illustrated in his book is from a teaspoon engraved "FK 1851".

Best regards/JAKJO

[Theoderich]

This is great JAKJO

A difference is the underline on the P from Parchim

[silverly]

Could it be that the P in the 502 drawing does not have an underline, but rather that the stem of the P is not well formed on the mark? The stem or vertical portion of the letter P seems a bit short.