Featured Goldsmith mark on gold tipped cane

Hi all!
I'm not very experienced in researching marks on gold, and could use some help figuring out what this mark is ... mainly as a tool to narrow down the age of this cane. Maybe even the style of lettering on the monogram could offer a hint.

As for the maker mark ... I first saw what I thought was an anchor with (something) in front of it ... but I'm not finding a jeweler/goldsmith that uses a mark like it - searched through Lang Antiques Makers Marks, and through my book of Old Silver with no luck (was only looking through American makers since I don't know who else would use a stand alone 14K )

Photographing this was a challenge because it involved wedging the camera between the shaft and the end of the tip - up in the curve of the hook.

What else could this mark be?


actually, now that I see this in print ... it looks a little like a horse head

 

Looks like a horse head on top of an anchor.

 

Perhaps a "seahorse" or hippo-campus. One of the romantic notion ones with an actual horse head on a fish body in front of an anchor?

 

Thanks for looking, Holly! Yes, I see that from some angles too - hadn't seen it at all until I posted the pic here though.

 

Thanks, buyingtime! That's another possibility too.

 

I've run across a long thread in the forums at 925-100.com that shows many ads for canes, umbrellas, whips, etc... Maybe I'll locate a similar mark (fingers crossed)

 

funny....with all the Navy here...I see the USMC logo...without the eagle...
haha!!

 

Looks like Gorham's lion-anchor gold mark...

~Cheryl

 

https://fineart.ha.com/itm/silver-s...hor-14k-x387-2-3-8-inches-high/a/5212-75178.s

~Cheryl

 

Why ... Yes, it does!!!!
Thank you so much, Cheryl!