Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

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lindleyspider
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Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

Postby lindleyspider » Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:15 am

Can anyone help with the mark shown here? The object is a rather elegant silver teaspoon, 14cm long, inherited many years ago. The three marks are on the underside of the stem: a bearded man's head, a name (possibly "LANDRY"), and a face mask: it's the latter that suggests S. America to me. All suggestions welcome.
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Francais

Re: Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

Postby Francais » Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:34 am

Paris .950 fine silver 1819-38 by B. Landry (Jean Baptiste Denis LANDRY) 6 cour Lamoignon. Paris Started 1826.
Maurice

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Re: Help wanted with mystery mark - guess S. America?

Postby lindleyspider » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:20 pm

Ah! Thanks very much for this info. France makes much more sense - the elegance of the design, as well as the probability that the original owner, from whom we inherited, had been there rather than S. America.
Arthur


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