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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fidbald, post: 53733, member: 61&quot;]Cyma London belonged to Tavannes Watch Co., so not two companies.</p><p>generally, the Swiss didn&#039;t declare silver marks on small items mandatory except for watch cases. the three bears are really due to British legislation in the 1880s when import was only allowed with marks that followed the English system, so they simply added another two, most probably going up by two steps (900 was a very rare grade, and then 935) . we should not fotget that England wasn&#039;t the only export market. especially German trades companies bought masses of cases that sometimes ended up with three national marks, e.g. Swiss/German import/Russian because the Russiab assay offices weren&#039;t reliable and relied on German testing. very rare are Swiss/German/Chinese combinations that seem to have come to China via Russia to places like Mukden (today Shenyang) or to German trading places like Tsingtao (today Qingdao).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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