Gold Hallmark /stamp ID help please

Please can anyone enlighten me as to the mark on the bail of this pendant?
The whole thing acid tests as gold (top acid is 9k, bottom is 14k, I haven’t got any 18k to try) but the pearl is faux (replacement pearl or heavy plate?)
There is a mark on the chain but so smushed to be illegible if it is even a mark.
If I could decipher the mark that’s on the bail, the whole thing might become clearer!
Thankyou so much

 

It sure looks like a gold mark. I can't read it either.

 

Or me.
Smushed octopus doesn’t get me great Google results

 

I think we could use more pictures from different angles to get a better idea on that mark.

 

Weevil mark? The French used it on silver, and gold-plateds silver would fit with a faux pearl.

 

I’ll try in the morning in better light. I struggled to get that one!

 

I’ll follow that up. Thankyou

 

Did you ever figure out what this is, @KSW ?
Maybe @Aquitaine can help to make the image clearer?

 

PHEW!!! THAT was a tricky one and all I could really do was try to sharpen, enlarge then run it through my enhancement filters!! I also laid it out in all 4 positions....i.e. left, right, upside down & right side up! What I'm seeing (AND BY NO MEANS DOES IT MEAN IT'S CORRECT!!!!) is- in the first right side up image.....a woman with something on her head, holding a pitcher off to her left in the air, and holding her right hand in the air.... don't remember what you call those billowy pants, the numbers 3,5 & 1 down the left side of the cartouche....but giving you all 4 positions so as to not lock you in to one view....I'm SO NOT sure this helps any!!!! And in the end, maybe it's just a lovely bunch of ribbons!!!!

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Thanks for checking and editing! I hope this helps!