A couple of my necklaces

Sometimes gold marks are illegible. The way the jump ring is smooshed tells me it's likely gold. What fineness...no idea. The stamping is all wrong for costume and highly unlikely for silver. I'd have it tested; the odds are good you got a bargain.

 

The amethyst necklace - I think it’s an Austrian hallmark for 14ct gold. Look up the Austrian horse head gold mark, it looks a lot like the ‘heart’ marks on your necklace.

 

You……Are Right! Thank you, so much!!!!



Not great pictures, but I can’t seem to figure out how to take more decent close up shots. Plus the magnifier I’m using isn’t that great either. Tried to get photos of the jump ring, but it was just not happening. It took me longer than I care to admit just to take these.

There doesn’t seem to be a huge amount of information about the mark. And I’m also slightly confused. One source says they used the mark after 1925 and another source seems to suggest it was only used for a short time between 1922-1925. It’s not clear which is true, so I’m not sure how old my necklace is. But this is still a really amazing bit of info to have! Thank you!

 

No problem, glad I could help! Yes I came across similar confusion about the time period of the mark being used - but from what I’ve read there was a different mark used between 1922-1925 (a bear’s head) and the horse head is post-1925, potentially for some time(?), so difficult to age it by the mark.

 

The bear's head mark was used 1922-1925, from August 1925 on that the horse's head was used.
But you don't have to worry about the 1920s, because stylewise your pendant is post-WWII. The horse's head was used after 1946 as well.

This is from an Austrian site, www.sondengaenger.at.
The line at the top says: Official fineness marks 2.5.1922 (European sequence, so the 2nd of May) - 14.8.1939 and 25.7.1946 until now. Pferdekopf means horse's head:



As an aside, I got very confused when you called the mark a heart and added the drawing of a heart, because I never saw the shape of the mark as a heart. Because of the confusion I just left it at that, so it was a good thing @bluejay was able to see the mark for what it was.

 

Well I am an equestrian after all, we can always be trusted to spot a horse from a mile away…

 

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