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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 320367, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful silver, Silver.</p><p>Agree with Bakers (of course), the marks look Dutch but aren&#039;t, which also leads me to believe they could be Hanau pseudo-marks. Which doesn&#039;t mean the craftmanship is not good, it is.</p><p>The lion would be facing the right way if it were Dutch gold. But since this is silver the Dutch lion should be facing the other way.</p><p><br /></p><p>The VOC went bankrupt in 1795, these were made later.</p><p>Silver marks from the VOC era could still have been in use, but I don&#039;t know. I don&#039;t know the marks for Cape silver either.</p><p>The only VOC silver mark I know, is for Batavia (Jakarta). Batavian silver never used Dutch marks, it had the Batavia town mark and a maker&#039;s mark. I would expect the Cape to have had a town mark as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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