Featured austro hungarian(?) gold hallmark identification please

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by shamster, Apr 28, 2024.

  1. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    I bought this gorgerous ring on my last trip to London: 1.jpg
    And it was sold to me as austro hungarian. Does anyone recognize these hallmarks? 2.jpg
    No reference online, found another listing of a similar silver on gold ring but it has been taken down, and that one's hallmarks are rubbed as well. Thanks! And please enjoy the picture of it. I've stopped collecting rings but still found this ring so pretty
     
  2. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

  3. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Did you pay 4.50 for it? :D
     
  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    every dog...or cat....has it's day !!!
    nice find @shamster :wideyed:;):hilarious:
     
  5. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    More than 100 times of 4.5 :hungover: but not a bad deal, much lower than the amethyst one attached here
     
    Last edited: Apr 28, 2024
  6. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    I snapped this one before another customer asking for it as well;)
     
  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I'd be wondering about French marks too. I see one that looks like a weevil.
     
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  8. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Top mark looks vertical, with a left facing head above a B and I don't know what on each side of the head. second mark looks like a head with a crown facing left, and I have no idea what the 3rd mark could be
     
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  9. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

  10. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    That's incredible :hilarious: like, you can really see something in those marks! I almost thought they were just random punches pretending they're hallmarks. Thank you for the observation
     
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  11. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    I can still read french hallmarks under a 30x loupe, as long as they're inside the shank not somewhere often got rubbed. But these are clueless:hungover:
     
  12. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    What I see, doesn't guarantee that it's right. After messing around with the colours and contrast, I was even starting to see text vertically under the marks.
    I'm also able to see faces of people and a lion in the tiles of my bathroom.
    And my coffee maker has a grid that is a face with one earring
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  13. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    I can see the imagination involved in your observation:hilarious: but at least I have a clue now
     
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  14. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Oh my god, you’ve a cyberman!
     
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  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Gorgeous ring, shamster.:woot::woot::happy:
    lthough the style looks (Austro-)Hungarian, I don't recognize the hallmarks though. I checked Austro-Hungarian, Austrian, Hungarian, Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak republics, and even Portugal, but I come up with nothing.

    Maybe @DragonflyWink knows.:)

    Cropped and tweaked the marks a bit, and I'm with Marote, the second one looks like a crowned head, probably with a beard:

    2.jpg
     
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  16. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    First I saw it as a crowned guy with a beard. A bit like this (but facing left)
    images.jpg
    But zooming in on it, now it looks more like this to me
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  17. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    Thank you! Yeah I have another Austro Hungarian 14k ring with a much more eligible hallmark ( a hound’s head I think) but this one I can find no matches. The seller told me it was AH though, and you can see the amethyst one I attached, same style, construction and marks. But no other examples
     
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  18. shamster

    shamster Well-Known Member

    That reminds me of early anglo saxon coins :hilarious: very artistic indeed. Though I think there’s only crowned women’s head in AH hallmark system
     
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  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The Austrians call it a "Fuchskopfpunze", a fox head mark, but I agree, it looks like a hound’s head. It would have been nice if this ring had it so we would have an ID, but alas.
     
    Last edited: Apr 29, 2024
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  20. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    What I can make out isn't ringing any bells, but I may have one book that might help - it's here somewhere in a box, just have to figure out which one...

    ~Cheryl
     
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