Featured Superb silver plate tray, but who?

Bought this yesterday. REALLY good quality, that's real lapis. I can't find anything on the ARMAN PLATE mark, and also, that other logo looks like it might be a very stylised name. Anyone please?

 

Hi OBB,
Oh my. I love that tray.
greg

 

I also like that. What are the dimensions?

 

It's a lovely plate! Looks like someone's having fun hiding his/her signature!!!

 

No, davey, bought it at a local market yesterday for five quid. Hadn't spotted the Ebay one, what did you search on?

It's about nine and a quarter by six and a quarter inches.

 

OK, this is weird. I've found the completed listing and I swear it's the tray I bought. The seller isn't actually that far from where I got it, either. I reckon that's mine!

 

Love the tray. Now there is a great example of how quality photographs make a world of difference.

 

I did indeed get it cheaper! It'll be the same person, I'd think.

Thank you for the kind words on the photos. It's not rocket science, really, it's lighting and a decent camera. Mind you, silver is easier to photo than glass.

I still want to find out more about this thing. That logo has to mean something, I reckon.

 

It says 'Liberty' to me. The shop, not the concept.

 

Yes, it does have that look. And the quality, too.

I just found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-ARMAN-S...ish-Coin-Tray-Jewellery-Islamic-/221940817501

Now, I'd started to wonder if that logo was stylised Arabic or something. So stylised Farsi or Armenian, maybe? Arman is a name in both.

 

That ebay one appears to have a date on the bottom in 2005. The seller thinks it is solid silver.

 

Sellers can be so funny !!!!

 

Thanks davey - I had a good look at the listing, and I agree with you. They're not actually cracks, but typically lapis veining.

The more I look at this thing, the more I think Persian, especially as it's where much lapis comes from. I need a Farsi speaker!

 

Thank you! That would be really useful.

 

You STAR! Huge thanks. Really really appreciated. I could see the stylisation: he'd made his name into a piece of artwork, but I'd no clue what it said.