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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 254328, member: 44"]After editing the maker's mark in several different ways, I still can't make out the initials with any certainty. The last 2 letters may be MA or MR. I'm not even sure if it is 3 or 4 initials. I've looked in Hougart's <i>The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks</i> listings of "Three or Four Letter Initials" as well as the Eagle 2 listings for something similar with no luck. As you have said yours is a c1948/1950 to 1980 Eagle 2. The Federal District of Mexico City silversmiths usually carry an Eagle 1 mark. Taxco and some Gaudalajara silversmiths use the Eagle 3 mark. Eagle 50 is Gaudalajara also. It is not unusual to see a Taxco silversmith with an Eagle 1 mark or a Mexicon City with a Taxco Eagle 3 mark. Am including a couple of edited mark versions. Maybe someone with better eyes might be able to figure them out. A big majority of Mexican marks haven't been officially ID.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]78770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]78771[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 254328, member: 44"]After editing the maker's mark in several different ways, I still can't make out the initials with any certainty. The last 2 letters may be MA or MR. I'm not even sure if it is 3 or 4 initials. I've looked in Hougart's [I]The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks[/I] listings of "Three or Four Letter Initials" as well as the Eagle 2 listings for something similar with no luck. As you have said yours is a c1948/1950 to 1980 Eagle 2. The Federal District of Mexico City silversmiths usually carry an Eagle 1 mark. Taxco and some Gaudalajara silversmiths use the Eagle 3 mark. Eagle 50 is Gaudalajara also. It is not unusual to see a Taxco silversmith with an Eagle 1 mark or a Mexicon City with a Taxco Eagle 3 mark. Am including a couple of edited mark versions. Maybe someone with better eyes might be able to figure them out. A big majority of Mexican marks haven't been officially ID. --- Susan [ATTACH=full]78770[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]78771[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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