Please help with strange marks on silver

Hello
Thank you glad to have found this beautiful site!
Hope these help?

 

First pic could be a number but I can't make out exactly what's going on there. Second pic looks like scratches/rubs.

 

I know they look like arrow heads or knives from a cave painting lol
And second photo defiantly not scratches as whatever this was used for has left a white colouring inside and I have not been able to scratch any of it, also they are golden marks sorry hard to photo.
The 925 mark is on the top lip very clear just these have me scratching my head also unsure as to what it would have been used for as it looks as tho burnt in places and would not hold liquid with those holes he he

 

Probably held some kind of candle or other light source.

For future reference, please don't leave any important clues or facts you know out of the information you provide in your first post.

 

Ever so sorry

 

Hope these photos help some more just tried night light in it and handles got super hot so tried it over the candle and it would work to melt something as it got hot quicker than the wax.
Loving this thank you for all of your comments and help

 

I would think maybe a potpourri holder ?

 

I was thinking censer, to be passed around, hence the handles. Incense is used in many Middle Eastern countries as a welcome to guests.

 

Missing an insert, I reckon.

 

The problem I have with this mark is that it's made with three different stamps, and marks for silver are made in one stamp, as they are not sold normally at people, most use normal punches to make their mark and it seems it's here the fact.

 

Maybe we have a language problem and the sentences do not seem to make sense.If you are talking about the marks inside of the handle they were made by a chisel/chasing tool. I do not understand this statement"as they are not sold normally at people".

 

The picture in the link doesn't appear in my post, I'm speaking of the 925 picture which is in my quote, I put the picture below.
The text wasn't interesting for my answer , just the picture, and I don't control it after posting, my apologies.
I can't make the picture better with the link, something makes me a problem.

 

Here it is :


I think you mean that the 9,2, and 5 in the oval cartouche don't line up and are different sizes, it is as if they were stamped separately.

Hallmark punches are for official use by assay offices only, but generic 925 punches can be bought online. Which doesn't mean this one was.

 

Thanks to publish the link.
It's interesting you explain that can be buy freely, by us it's a offence against federal law to obtain such punch which can be used as a silver hallmark from every country and to have them in your workshop too, (controlled today on my professional regulation), you can buy separate punches but not one like that.

 

It is illegal in most, if not all European countries, but the internet makes illegality widely accessible.

 

Thank you all for your comments you have given me lots to think about and look into.