Egyptian silver stamp

Tut has a tiny stamp on his neck that looks like a palm tree. It’s very faint but I think that’s what it is. Does that help with a date or just where it’s come from?. Charm is only 1.5cm tall and very difficult to photograph as I polished him
Thankyou

 

I believe that is Nefertiti.

 

Lol, you are probably right. I just saw Egyptian and thought it must be Tut!.

 

Not sure how it comes to look like a palm tree, but probably the 800 silver mark, which looks like a Greek upper case lambda followed by 1 or 2 dots. Typical of Egypt to mark so openly, instead of in some out of sight spot. Have seen marks right on a pharaoh's cheek.

 

Having googled that looks likely. No wonder my palm tree search didn’t work.Does that mark date it at all or is it indeterminate?
Thanks

 

Looks like the inexpensive Egyptian souvenir charms that were sold during the 1984 World Exposition held in New Orleans, Louisiana. They originally cost about twenty bucks and were sterling but hollow. I cannot remember seeing a palm tree or any mark, but I was never looking to buy one.

 

No, I'm afraid it's no help for dating. They had a system of date letters, & the national mark changed from a cat to a lotus blossom in 1946, but the fineness mark is the only one applied to every piece; many pieces do not have either of the other two.

Here's an 800 mark on the left & a post-1940 date letter on the right:

 

Cheeky!

The 600 mark looks a little more like a palm tree, to me at least. It is the one in the centre:

The post-1946 national lotus mark, on the left, also looks a bit like a palm tree.

 

Don’t know if this helps. I can’t really see the mark on yours and mine isn’t great either.
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You know your brooch is marked on the front as well as the back. Have seen this again & again, no concern that they had to squash one of the little balls to do it:

 

I hadn’t noticed that! Thanks Bronwen.