French Silversmith QA

[Acapulco]

Could anyone help please I have looked high and low for the French silversmith with the initials QA with a horses head. It is a chateline clip. It is definately silver as it does have the head of minerve 1st title stamp.
Many thanks

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[Acapulco]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91131634@N ... t-72157633

Thank you for any info

[vika]

hello,
I found the reply to your question
Charles Quantin, so- called Quantin the father, was a french jeweller in Niort. He started working in 1849. After getting married with Marie Ursule Aubineau, they founded the society Quantin-Aubineau in 1858.

http://www.alienor.org/publications/poi ... ortais.htm

regards

[Acapulco]

Thank you very much Vika, ever since it left my hands I still wondered who it was.