Brandy Sniffers Help Please

[JoyousParkin]

I have two sniffers that I need identified, would very much appreciate as much information as possible. Below are links to very high resolution pictures of the brandy sniffers hallmarks.

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab30 ... 0629-1.jpg
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab30 ... 0628-1.jpg

[JoyousParkin]

Ok maybe they arn't brandy Snifter, heres pictures of them both

http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab30 ... C_0792.jpg

[2209patrick]

Hello.

Looks to me like Austrian marks used since 1922, check here:
http://www.925-1000.com/Faustria_03.html

Can't help with the maker.

Pat.

[silverport]

Made by Alexander Sturm, Vienna — signed for Christofle & Comp., Vienna.

Hello »JoyousParkin«

Yours maybe “snifters” are made by the well recommended Vienna silver wares factory of Alexander Sturm, Vienna VII, Burggasse 85 (founded 1882). Their specialities were: Cutlery, Hollowware’s, Cigar and Cigarettes cases made in Gold and Silver. There fore to make that broad range of articles they had around 100 workers.

The “snifters” have the following marks:

“Toucan” mark (= 800-1,000 silver fineness [W = Assay Office Vienna, 4 = 800]), from 1922 on

“800” (= 800-1,000 silver fineness)

Part of the normal maker’s mark of Alexander Sturm = quatrefoil; here erased by a drop of molten silver

“CC” in a lozenge cartouche = Made by Alexander Sturm for Christofle & Comp., Vienna I, Opernring

The latter mark is an Alexander Sturm ‘over struck’ mark, made by the maker himself, for the benefit of the Vienna shop of Christofle as retailer. That signification is, that these items aren’t a Christofle pattern itself, or only especially made for Christofle — well maybe made on a normal sales order, in which one it was agreed to over struck the original maker’s mark with a retailers mark.

Source:

Neuwirth, Waltraud: Lexikon Wiener Gold- und Silberschmiede und ihre Punzen — 1867-1922. Two volumes. Vienna 1976.
ISBN 3-900282-00-5
Vol. I, p. 62, table 8, numb. 8 = Assay punch; Vol. II, p. 239 (brief history and explanation on the use of "CC" mark); Vol. II, p. 311, numb. 366 (»CC« mark).

Kind regards silverport

[dognose]

An advertisement for the Vienna branch of Christofle that silverport mentioned in the above post:


Christofle & Cie - Vienna - 1907

Trev.