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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chucktell, post: 146444, member: 2162&quot;]Bakersgma, thanks for the information on image embedding. It looks like Susan has just done it for me, complete with cropping and resizing (Thanks, Susan), but I&#039;ve made a note of how to do it myself in the future.</p><p>Susan&#039;s additional information does, in fact, seem to indicate Ivan Lebedkin, Moscow, as assayer on my piece. The small kokoshnik and accompanying small-84 marks on mine do seem to be the version used only in a short 6-month marking transition period at the end of 1898 (referred to in Susan&#039;s link: <a href="http://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_kokoshnik_01.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_kokoshnik_01.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_kokoshnik_01.html</a>.)</p><p>I should have emphasized just how small the entire kokoshnik marking actually is. You can&#039;t tell by looking at my blown-up photo. You need a lot of magnification to see the assayer mark. Even the &quot;84&quot; is hard to see with the naked eye. And you can see how the &quot;84&quot; is also small relative to the head (which itself is very small). I would say it&#039;s definitely the small format of late 1898 referred to.</p><p>Also, here&#039;s an older discussion on another forum that talks about the small-format kokoshnik marking: <a href="http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38756" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38756" rel="nofollow">http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38756</a>.</p><p>I haven&#039;t been able to identify a cyrillic maker&#039;s mark for my piece anywhere. I tried &quot;WI&quot; and &quot;MI,&quot; (upside-down) to no avail.</p><p>Please post any other ideas or thoughts on all of this that occur to anyone. And thanks again for the fast, helpful responses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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