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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 267576, member: 2844"]I looked at the left side of the mark, there is no room for another letter, and the punch doesn't seem to be worn. But I did some research on what I see as the German style.Turns out the Germans had three ways of spelling doublé, the French spelling, duble and dublee. This mark looks like duble.They would often specify the gold fineness.German doublé was sometimes made with a core of 'viertelgold', an alloy containing 25% gold (like in a lot of Bohemian garnet jewellery). That could be the case with this pendant, making the deep scratches look like gold, the same as the outer gold layers. Which leaves me with the 40 mark.There were many German goldsmiths in Russia, ever since the Middle Ages. In the late 19th century there were 1.7 million Germans in Russia.The craftspeople worked either in the big cities, or in the designated German regions of Russia. These regions had a great deal of autonomy, but had to adhere to certain Russian laws. German was spoken, and the customs, style of dress, etc. were German.It seems likely that German goldsmiths in one of the designated German regions would make German style jewellery, using Western European techniques like 'duble', but would have to adhere to the Russian law on fineness marking.This is all just deduction, but I think it could explain the combination of duble and 40.[/QUOTE]