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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 5168, member: 44"][QUOTE=" "1" mark of Mexico City from the 1960s I believe. The marks read RR 925 mm Hecho en Mexico DF and Hecho en Mexico 925 L.M. DER (possibly not an R) Sterling. [/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p>This RR in a circle stamp is one used by the noted Sanborn Brothers. It is pictured on p. 172, fig. S-13, of Hougart's <i>The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks</i>. Usually there is another stamp with the 3 owl logo of Sanborn. It has a picture of the same RR stamp as yours as well as the 3-owl logo stamp of Sanborn and an Eagle 22 stamp. After "Hecho en Mexico" is "D.F." - not DER. D.F. stands for the Distrito Federal, Federal District of the City of Mexico.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hougart's book is online with some of the pages available for reading. Page 172 with your mark is one of the pages. Here is a link to it. Scroll down a couple of pages to 172 - at the top of the page. The start of the Sanborn section is on page 170.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4n7_jNrBp9EC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Sanborn+Brothers+of+Mexico+City+silver+marks&source=bl&ots=462KgK-GXB&sig=icgCDt8dqBoXkkSTaF3j-QqkMGg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KAioU8DTC4elqAa21oJA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sanborn%20Brothers%20of%20Mexico%20City%20silver%20marks&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=4n7_jNrBp9EC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Sanborn+Brothers+of+Mexico+City+silver+marks&source=bl&ots=462KgK-GXB&sig=icgCDt8dqBoXkkSTaF3j-QqkMGg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KAioU8DTC4elqAa21oJA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sanborn%20Brothers%20of%20Mexico%20City%20silver%20marks&f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=4n7_jNrBp9EC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Sanborn Brothers of Mexico City silver marks&source=bl&ots=462KgK-GXB&sig=icgCDt8dqBoXkkSTaF3j-QqkMGg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KAioU8DTC4elqAa21oJA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sanborn Brothers of Mexico City silver marks&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 5168, member: 44"][QUOTE=" "1" mark of Mexico City from the 1960s I believe. The marks read RR 925 mm Hecho en Mexico DF and Hecho en Mexico 925 L.M. DER (possibly not an R) Sterling. [/QUOTE] This RR in a circle stamp is one used by the noted Sanborn Brothers. It is pictured on p. 172, fig. S-13, of Hougart's [I]The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks[/I]. Usually there is another stamp with the 3 owl logo of Sanborn. It has a picture of the same RR stamp as yours as well as the 3-owl logo stamp of Sanborn and an Eagle 22 stamp. After "Hecho en Mexico" is "D.F." - not DER. D.F. stands for the Distrito Federal, Federal District of the City of Mexico. Hougart's book is online with some of the pages available for reading. Page 172 with your mark is one of the pages. Here is a link to it. Scroll down a couple of pages to 172 - at the top of the page. The start of the Sanborn section is on page 170. [URL='http://books.google.com/books?id=4n7_jNrBp9EC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Sanborn+Brothers+of+Mexico+City+silver+marks&source=bl&ots=462KgK-GXB&sig=icgCDt8dqBoXkkSTaF3j-QqkMGg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KAioU8DTC4elqAa21oJA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sanborn%20Brothers%20of%20Mexico%20City%20silver%20marks&f=false']http://books.google.com/books?id=4n7_jNrBp9EC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=Sanborn Brothers of Mexico City silver marks&source=bl&ots=462KgK-GXB&sig=icgCDt8dqBoXkkSTaF3j-QqkMGg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KAioU8DTC4elqAa21oJA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sanborn Brothers of Mexico City silver marks&f=false[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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