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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 253005, member: 2844&quot;]I wish. The emphasis is on silver. There are countless sites on silver marks, most of them copy an Italian one, so if mistakes are made in the first one, they keep showing up in the other sites.</p><p>Online I mostly research the scant information the assay offices of different countries are willing to provide, but that means I have to have an idea where in this big wide world a piece of jewellery could have been made. I have a German book that lists marks based on their appearance, say a crab, so that is a start. It doesn&#039;t have a section on Independence Day crabs<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />, but that was based on a confusion with a silver mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I wouldn&#039;t put too much time into reseaching the maker&#039;s mark (I.D. crab). You&#039;ll probably never find it. And if you do, it is unlikely to add any value to the pendant.</p><p>By the way, I just found the site of Japan Mint, the 750 mark is not Japanese. They have a row of marks, including a 750 in a rhombus/diamond shape: </p><p><a href="http://www.mint.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/resources/htdocs/eng/operations/pdf/certification_mark.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mint.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/resources/htdocs/eng/operations/pdf/certification_mark.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.mint.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/resources/htdocs/eng/operations/pdf/certification_mark.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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