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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2951120, member: 2844&quot;]Not a hallmark but a maker&#039;s mark.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>My Mexican marks book says AAC is a Taxco maker, no known name. The eagle mark means it was made before 1980.</p><p>Taxco is the most famous Mexican silver town.</p><p>I don&#039;t think it matters who made it valuewise, it is cute, but the style is pretty generic.</p><p><br /></p><p>A hallmark is an official assay mark, named after the guildhalls of the old European silver- and goldsmith guilds. A hallmark can only be punched by a government agency, not by a silversmith.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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