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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 390869, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, it is a Dutch Minerva mark of 1814-1905, which was used by the assay offices. That means the silver tax was paid, which means it is legally silver, but that could be anything between 835 and 934 or over.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the period of this particular Minerva mark, a fineness of 800 was not legally recognized as silver in the Netherlands.</p><p>It is a fineness you find a lot in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire, which is why many outside Continental Europe call it Continental silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>M is for the assay office of Schoonhoven, still a major silver town in the Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me too, very Dutch in style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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