French Silver Plated Mark

I guess 6g is for 6 grams of silver used for the plating?
Anyone recognizes the maker's mark? Looks like F hammer(or T) F?
Thanks

 

How does one says le hammer in French?

http://www.silvercollection.it/frenchsilversmithsF.html

 

Good question, Terry. There are very few FF marks and none with "entre" in the description (to indicate that the object is between the letters.)

Kardinalisimo - you are correct on the 6 gram punch.

 

I haven't a clue as to the maker. I have found a couple of French makers' marks with 2 Fs, but none like this one. I think it is a tomahawk between the Fs. Orrr maybe that hammer that hit the windshield of a car driving on I-95 yesterday!!!

http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-flor...d-of-stephanie-solinskis-car/20295786#!bs2pnA

I did find on WorthPoint a sterling silver vermeil wash French made monstrance that the seller said was marked with a Minerva head and 2 Fs with a symbol between. I couldn't see the mark in any of the posted pictures. As they seem not to know what the "symbol" was, there is a possibility the mark is like yours???

To show my ignorance, I didn't know what was a monstance. According to an online dictionary it is a Roman Catholic name for a "receptacle in which the host is held. Also called ostensorium." Nowwww, if we knew your FF was the same as on the monstance, one might presume your bowl was for religious purposes also. Here is the monstance:
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-french-950-sterling-silver-vermeil

Here is another vermeil silver monstance that the seller says has the French Minerva head with no description of the maker's mark only saying " silversmith’s marks in different parts." I can see the Minerva head in one of the pictures, but can't see the maker's mark. Anyways, the monstances look very similar. They both are said to have a motif of "grapes and wheat."
http://www.rubylane.com/item/1251216-AR-A-526/Huge-French-Solid-Silver-Monstrance-83

Possibly someone can spot the maker's mark in either monstance's pictures. Have included an edited enlarged pic of the maker's mark to better see the tomahawk.

--- Susan

 

Meant to add on the above reply that there are French FF maker's marks on that link Terry gave. In the description of one of the marks a hammer is mentioned, but not like yours. It is the 2nd "FF" mark. The English translation of the description:

FF - a chisel and hammer cross, a star above 1900/1912
Florentin, Frederic.

Here is the English translation of that page:
http://translate.google.com/transla...&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=windows-1252

Here is another French maker's mark page showing an "FF" under the Orleans section, about 2/3rds of the way down the page. Again the mark isn't yours.
http://www.silvercollection.it/ASCASWIDOWSMARKS.html

--- Susan

 

Thanks for trying. If the piece was sterling I would keep digging but in this case the maker won't matter I guess. Seems like the old French makers are better documented. Who knows, one day I may find simialr one.