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Featured hallmark id help

Discussion in 'Silver' started by fettan4, Feb 20, 2025.

  1. fettan4

    fettan4 Active Member

    Hello!

    Can anyone identify these stamps, could they be genuine silver? Warm greetings Fettan 4.jpg 2.jpg
     
  2. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

  3. fettan4

    fettan4 Active Member

    Thank you so much, wow it's from egypt :)

    It is a bit difficult for me to read the marks. Have I understood correctly that the candlestick is silver? Can anyone tell me were in Egypt? Can anyone decipher all the symbols?

    Have a good day!
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is .900 silver, so just under Sterling, which is .925. It was assayed in Cairo. Looks like the period is May 1978- July 79.
    The Egyptian lotus flower mark in the centre means it is post-1946 silver.
     
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  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    MAde to a very British design, so a legacy of empire.
     
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  6. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    That’s the most crisp Egyptian mark I’ve personally ever seen.
     
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  7. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I would think in large part due to its being on a large object, instead of on the pin stem of a brooch, for example.
     
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  8. J Dagger

    J Dagger Well-Known Member

    That’s a good point. That said I’ve actually had a good amount of larger Egyptian pieces. Someone on ebay years ago got into the collection of an oil big wig from the 70s/80s. They had a ton of Egyptian silver. Most presentation pieces. Silver price was low and Egyptian silver wasn’t sterling so wasn’t showing up in most searches. Most people also don’t know Egyptian silver/hallmarks so the ones that did see it mostly avoided it anyways it seemed. I won a bunch of it. I actually won an auction for a massive tray after the first batch had been delivered. Won it nicely below melt. Silver shot way up in a days time before they had shipped the tray. They found an excuse to cancel the sale rather than take an L on the big gap between paid price and melt. I was furious. Since I had bought a at least a dozen items from them I left about a dozen negative feedbacks. Kinda crappy and vindictive of me I guess. They somehow got eBay to take all my feedback down. I can’t get one negative feedback deleted these days when it’s clearly based on dishonest claims. They must talk a good game. That was when you could still get a rep on the phone.

    Of course I also don’t polish my silver well usually. Maybe there was a clear set of hallmarks under all that tarnish somewhere. This set is particularly crisp though. I did just get two small delicate jewelry pieces. One gold and one silver. Those are darn hard to make out, you’re right there.
     
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