Does anybody know this mark ?

[kuku]

I am new to silver collecting and hope you can help me. I have been looking for a long time to find this mark on the glass holders. I was told they are sterling but I keep wondering if they realy are. The Mark is MHU the U has a funny shape to it and what I think is a bird in a part circle.
Gruss
kuku

[2209patrick]

I believe your glass holder is Russian and is called "podstakannik" which means "under the glass". It's a tea glass holder. What appears to be MHU are actually the kyrillic letters MNZ which refer to the material it was made of, a copper, nickel and zinc alloy. I have read that between 1977 and 1985 tea glass holders were silver plated.
The bird mark has been described as a wood grouse. Below the bird is usually the letter K. That is the logo of "Koltchuginski Savod" in Koltchugina (Russia).

Pat.

[kuku]

Thank you very much Pat for your effort. It was very much appriciated.

Renee