Featured Vartan A.O. Silver box-Any Info?

Hi All and Happy Holidays!
Can anyone assist me to learn more about this silver box. It's the size to hold cigarettes on the table. I learned that Vartan A.O. is a Persian silver maker's mark but the examples I'm seeing all have the Russian 84 silver purity stamp. Mine does not. What would you say is the significance (or not) of that. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.

 

I found this one, and based on this alone, it does appear the maker also made silverplate:

https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55007

I should add, it's possible the maker didn't use a purity mark for a period of time or the maker also made silver plated items.

 

not unusual that silver has Russian marks from the soft Islamic underbelly of the old Russian Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vartun

 

Russian style 84 marks were introduced by the many (Christian) Armenian silversmiths who worked in Persia. They took the 84 zolotnik mark with them from Russian Armenia, and applied it to .840 silver.
Russian 84 zolotniki is .875 silver.

 

Thank you all for your thoughts. I'm not seeing evidence that the company made silver plated items so I'm still hopeful that it's silver.

 

It looks silver, but as we know, looks can deceive. Is there anywhere near you where you can have it tested?

 

No, I've never done that and wouldn't know where to go. I'll have to decide what to do next. Thanks for your help.