Oh no, it's another impossible mark! Silver cross

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  1. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Maybe Obb can take a photo through a loupe?
     
  2. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure a loupe will be any better: those were done with macro telephoto on a Lumix! I'll have a go though.

    Fid, Austrian would make sense, it has that look to it.
     
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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    And yes, I need to find a nice pale garnet. That other cross is interesting: smaller, but the same design.
     
  4. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    on a second glimpse that TT could be an F - either for fremd or for Lwow.
     
  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    That's a thought. I'll have another peer at it.
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It doesn't look life an F to me. If for Lwow, the F would be incorporated in another, general Austro-Hungarian mark.
    Austro-Hungarian import marks look like these:
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    Marcasites in Austro-Hungarian jewellery are generally of a more silvery colour. Gemstones are rarely set with delicate prongs, like the smaller garnets on your cross, but with very thick prongs, a closed bezel like the navettes, or the much preferred pinched bezel like on this garnet cross from my Austro-Hungarian collection:
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    The central pearl is set with those typical Austro-Hungarian thick prongs. Austrians still use those a lot.
    This cross pendant is in the classic Austro-Hungarian style btw, 19th century Renaissance Revival, which is still popular in a slightly modified way in parts of Central Europe. This is of the late Austro-Hungarian period, made in Slovakia with Bohemian garnets.
     
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