Featured Numbers on silver lidded bowl

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Chris Mount, Mar 3, 2018.

  1. Chris Mount

    Chris Mount Getting there

    Hi all picked this up was hoping someone could decipher the numbers on top looks like a price maybe as the bottom shows the 1881 date. Found it to be austrian around 1867 maybe. Any thoughts about 100mm across. 15200661650186.jpg 15200661649855.jpg 15200664661677.jpg
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    That Diana head with two tiny marks in a rather squat floral cartouche is for Austro-Hungarian silver from 1872-1922.
    The older, 1867-1872, Diana heads had only one tiny mark added inside the cartouche, a number indicating the fineness. This one has two.
    The tiny mark on the left looks like 3, which stands for .800 fineness. Is the tiny mark on the right of Diana a D? In that case it would have been made in Brno, present day Czech republic.
    SK is probably a maker's mark.

    Yes, it looks like it commemorates something. The symbol in the wreath could be an indication, but I can't make it out from the picture.
     
  3. Chris Mount

    Chris Mount Getting there

    Not sure aj maybe an anchor 15200732117090.jpg
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    If it is an anchor, it is asymmetrical. Maybe initials LS, SL?
     
  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    The numbers all look like dates to me: Christmas 1881; 10 January 1931. Inside the wreath is a monogram, I think. See the same possibilities AJ sees, with maybe IL being another one.
     
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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes, they are.
     
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  7. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    Probably a “patch box”.
     
  8. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Hard to tell what it is, without seeing the whole object. That's if it's even silver to begin with. I'd say it's a snuffbox, patch-box or pillbox. It looks to be pretty darn small, so it can't be too much else...
     
  9. Chris Mount

    Chris Mount Getting there

    Sorry peeps here's a picture thanks to all as always interesting to have 2 dates on it I find it intriguing 15201516885523.jpg 15201516885052.jpg
     
  10. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    Wasn’t hard for me to tell what it was and maybe you missed the marks and the reply regarding them by Any Jewelry.
     
  11. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Yeah I guess.
     
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