Tiny Early French Standard marks?

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  1. trip98

    trip98 Well-Known Member

    Salts. Sorry marks hard to photo and decipher. May 18th-19th Century? Thanks for the help. And is it a known pattern?
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    trip98, Mar 17, 2025
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  2. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    French .950 Minerva mark (.925 after 1972), in use from 1838, its insect countermark on the back is a bigorne - if you can get a clear shot of the maker's mark (in lozenge/diamond), its identification would narrow down dating...

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  3. trip98

    trip98 Well-Known Member

    Thanks Cheryl. I can see the mark with my strongest 14x loupe, but I cannot make much sense of it. Looks like a long image with a split in the middle with one letter on each side. Right initial an L or I maybe T. My camera cannot focus on it. I tried photographing under magnify glass with no success. I will try again in about an hour.... going to PO.
     
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    trip98 Well-Known Member

    Took awhile here is the best photos of the maker marks. I rotated the mark to view both ways.


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