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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 72657, member: 59&quot;]On the bottom, the very worn &quot;animal&quot; in a round cartouche appears to be the &quot;griffen&quot; mark for the city of Greiffenberg. (See the link below.) The zigzag line resulted from the assayer&#039;s scraping at the silver to test it&#039;s fineness. I don&#039;t know the meaning of the block letters IACO over BI or the ML (script letters), but I would imagine that at least one of them is the maker (probably the script letters) and the other could be an indication of the assayer.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is &quot;missing&quot; is the &quot;loth number&quot; that indicates fineness of the silver alloy, although it may have been incorporated into the griffen mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the link to the City Marks. <a href="http://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884_3.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing. The better picture of the engraving on the front revealed the word Wittwe as part of the words beneath Christian Klein. Wittwe translates as Widow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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