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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 249086, member: 2844"]The mark on the right is the old Russian 875 kokoshnik mark, introduced in 1896. Kokoshnik is the name of the girl's headdress. Facing right means after 1908.That means it could be from any country that was Russian at the time, before the Soviet era and mark. That was not confined to Russia as we know it now, it also included Finland, three Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasian countries, etc. Finland became independent in 1917-18.To determine where it was made, we'd have to see the tiny assayers mark next to the girl's head in the 875 kokoshnik mark. Could you take a close up photo of that? Russian silver was either marked in 'zolotniki', which is the same as the 'loth' system in some other parts of Europe, or in fineness, based on the zolotnik units. Your chalice is .875 fineness, the same as 84 zolotniki.[/QUOTE]