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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RachelW, post: 9427083, member: 15376&quot;]<p style="text-align: center">Good evening! </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">I picked this up at today&#039;s brocante. Its marked for Orfevrerie Ercuis, a French silversmith started in 1867 and still going on today. The only thing I can find out about it is that the mark was used 1886 onwards.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The mark itself looks like a rather fabulous donkey to me, but apparently its a centaur with an arrow, O and E on either top side.&nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Its quite heavy (45 grams) and feels like silver to me, but I can&#039;t figure out if its solid or plated?? Ercuis did both silver and plated which doesn&#039;t help matters. I&#039;m leaning towards plated but its awfully heavy compared to what you usually see. Is this a lesser but solid silver, or is the 2 (or 220) a thickness mark for plated? If it helps, it did have a nice ring to it when I accidentally dropped it on the floor <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Also, what is it? They did/do kitchen and dining ware, at 5.5cm in diameter its too big for a napkin ring, perhaps it was once on a decanter or pot of some kind? Can we tell any idea of age, and does that help in the ID?</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Thanks all very much indeed!</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]434426[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]434425[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]434427[/ATTACH] </p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]434428[/ATTACH] </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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