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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2156131, member: 111&quot;]Dragons?&nbsp; Where are the dragons?&nbsp; I want to see dragons too!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose it&#039;s individual perception, but I see little wear to the odd case/base/cover, do see considerably soiled suede (doesn&#039;t take long to do that), I see only the Grachev Bros. maker&#039;s mark w/Imperial Warrant on the rosy metal bit on the hasp, along with a single unclear mark on the proper Magen-David; and the plate for the winding key appears to read &#039;ЗАВОДЪ&#039;, which seems to translate to &#039;FACTORY&#039; in both Russian and Bulgarian (where I suspect this may have been created), and again, a bit odd for something supposedly produced by a high-end maker.</p><p><br /></p><p>The marks on the tablets are incomplete, missing the St. Petersburg town mark, don&#039;t have time to check my Russian references at the moment (and am unlikely to delve into them today), but a quick internet search doesn&#039;t find an appropriate St. Petersburg assayer with those initials, but does find a &#039;T·K&#039; or &#039;Т·К&#039; mark used by Timofey Kopanev, an Odessa assayer of the period; and as AJ pointed out, the partial marks on the yad and the strap-mount differ, the yad could be Moscow, but looks a bit more like Vilnius to me, and on the mount perhaps an older Tiflis mark (the metal around those mount marks looks very odd).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]252366[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55087" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55087" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55087</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Vilnius:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]252367[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tiflis:</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]252368[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_city_04.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_city_04.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/Frussia_city_04.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps someone might find some information to convince me that what I see is not troublesome at the least...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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