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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 391177, member: 2844&quot;]The rather suggestive looking mark is a French maker&#039;s mark, as Fid said. French maker&#039;s marks are always in a lozenge shape, either vertical, or horizontal like this one.</p><p>It looks like the mark for Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, with the VC and A on either side of the victory column of the Place Vendôme, the square in Paris where VCA and other top end jewellers have their shops.</p><p><img src="http://www.langantiques.com/aju/wp-content/uploads/participants-database/van_cleef_and_arpels.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So [USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER], it should be this thing below, the Vendôme Column, although I agree the mark on the compact looks like something else.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie13" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.travelfranceonline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F05%2FPlace-Vendome-in-Paris.jpg&amp;sp=525c3e4dbfb69da034ae0e3f6b456617" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The LAO mark is for the London Assay Office. 18k is neither French nor British, but American. It is also used in some Asian countries.</p><p>As far as I know, VCA use either the French eagle mark for 18k gold, or the British 750 mark. This piece has a mishmash of marks.</p><p>If it were British marked, it should look something like this, along with the VCA mark:</p><ul> <li><img src="https://www.assayofficelondon.co.uk/media/1245/hallmarks-043.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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