Silver cordial cup: Hallmarked but what is the origin?

This cup has several hallmarks but the only one I can make out is a lion with an attached key above him. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

The small circle on the far right of the 3 appears to be a woman's head facing left. Which would be the Queen Victoria duty mark - 1838 -1890.

Did you try a little silver polish (maybe on a q tip) to get into the mark. Might make it easier to see.

 

Thanks Pat. Nope haven't tried that yet. But if it's the Queen Victoria duty mark, then it would imply British Sterling marks, but these don't look to be that. The lion is facing right, fwiw.

 

Real quick because I'm on my way out of the house, but at a glance, they looks like Dutch marks, from here.

http://www.925-1000.com/Fnetherlands_Date_Code.html

 

Funny the only one I think I can see is the one on the right with shadowy lines of a woman's profile. So maybe I'm not seeing that correctly.

 

If that is a key abutting the Lion, it was exported to another country.

 

Moon - Does you camera have a "macro" function to get a closer focus?

I am with Sue on Netherlands for export from the one punch I can see clearly.

 

Thanks Sue! I do believe you're right....Netherlands fo sho!
My camera DID have a macro function, but it died and I've been too lazy to get another one so I just take photos with my i phone.

 

so I just take photos with my i phone.

When I was about 7, my family got their first telephone. It was a party line, no one sounded like anyone except Mr or Mrs Scratchy, it had a carbon granule microphone, it was big and black and did not take photographs. It was connected to the wall with wire and you'd grow old waiting for the rotary dial to rattle through its circle.

Sometimes something that someone says gives me delayed culture shock, as if I had just woken up in another century. I have, of course.

 

To sleep, perchance to dream...

 

and here I thought AF would have been pre-dial

 

Cheek.

 

Moon, if I may.....call it something else besides a cordial cup? Depending on size, Julep..Stirrup or Kiddush cup may garner more cash? Even a vodka cup? I always think of silver cordials as stemmed?

 

How about an app (shudder) that makes ending a call somehow 'noisier' if the button is pushed hard? So the caller knows you have slammed the phone down but in a high tech way. After all, it never made any extra noise with the old phones except to the hanger up. Surely the 21st Century can improve on the 20th in some way?

Anyone making a fortune from this idea, throw me a nickel from the train.

 

hahahahaha!!!

 

Put some famous dead guy's name on the bottom and clean up! Who would know, he's dead! heehee

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scearce-Ste...D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

Moon, I think there are apps for that.
I can't recommend any, because I've never tried them. Camera+ is one that I have heard good things about.

Wish there was an app for Af's suggestion!!

 

Sue nailed it. That is definitely the Dutch hexagon stamp with a Lion Passant denoting "2nd standard purity = minimum .833." As Sue said, the key butting up to the lion stamp denotes "object designated for export." The mark to the immediate right of the lion mark looks like the Netherland's Minerva head duty stamp. I can't mark out the letter on the head stamp that would be for the assay office. The stamp to the far right is probably the letter date code that I can't make out either. The stamp below is probably the maker's mark.

--- Susan