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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 433174, member: 2844&quot;]It doesn&#039;t look life an F to me. If for Lwow, the F would be incorporated in another, general Austro-Hungarian mark.</p><p>Austro-Hungarian import marks look like these:</p><p style="text-align: left"><img src="http://www.silvercollection.it/IMPORTAUSTRIA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.silvercollection.it/IMPORTMARK1891.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Marcasites in Austro-Hungarian jewellery are generally of a more silvery colour. Gemstones are rarely set with delicate prongs, like the smaller garnets on your cross, but with very thick prongs, a closed bezel like the navettes, or the much preferred pinched bezel like on this garnet cross from my Austro-Hungarian collection:</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/upload_2018-8-8_14-30-30-jpeg.135079/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The central pearl is set with those typical Austro-Hungarian thick prongs. Austrians still use those a lot.</p><p>This cross pendant is in the classic Austro-Hungarian style btw, 19th century Renaissance Revival, which is still popular in a slightly modified way in parts of Central Europe. This is of the late Austro-Hungarian period, made in Slovakia with Bohemian garnets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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