Brooch.

Please help me identify this brooch. It is made of silver. It seems to be rare. Maybe you can find out who made it. The brooch is antique.
The brooch is small. 2.5 cm.

 

Small but beautiful. It could be a German Jugendstil brooch, ca 1900. The stone looks like chrysoprase or glass.

 

Cropped the photo with the mark:



830S means .830 fineness silver. This fineness and way of marking is used more in Denmark/Scandinavia than in Germany.
I wonder if the B.H mark is for Danish maker/retailer Bernhard Hertz, so I'll tag @DragonflyWink for you.

 

Found this one for you on a German auctioneer's site:

https://www.mehlis.eu/de/catalogs/8015/item/2177/

It is the same design, but with an 800 mark instead of 830S. They say it is set with gold square instead of the inlaid cab, but it looks to me like it is missing the cab, since there are claws to hold a stone.

 

That's lovely, isn't it? Small, dainty and so of its time.

Debora

 

I would have picked it up in a heartbeat.

 

At a quick internet search, that doesn't appear, to my eye, to be the Bernhard Hertz mark. But @DragonflyWink will know better.

Debora

 

Well, pondered on this for a while, then hunger hit and took time to make a nice little pizza, and now I'm stuffed and drowsy - but here are my thoughts:

Like AJ, the design looks to me more German Jugendstil than Danish Skønvirke, and German makers definitely made .830 silver for the Danish market but seldom used the 'S' suffix. Can't say I know of a 'B.H.' German maker, but that means little since there were just so many.

I've seen numerous Bernhard Hertz marks, serifed and sans-serif, with and without periods, stamped incuse like this and in a rectangular cartouche, they were prolific and in business for a long time - it looks like a Bernhard Hertz stamp but while a variety of other marks appear on their goods, that unusual italic '830S' is unfamiliar to me.

Haven't seen any indication that Hertz retailed other makers goods when this piece was made, it's possible, but at the time they had a large factory in Copenhagen as well as a workshop in Stockholm, Sweden (their maker's mark there 'ABH').

So, I have no definitive answer, and personally, if selling, would mention Bernard Hertz, but wouldn't firmly identify it as their production ('believed to be', 'attributed to', whatever)...


Here is another brooch with the same marks, and also looking more Jugendstil than Skønvirke (quite nice Swedish dealer, I've bought from them):

https://tniklassongallery.com/produ...XnSidWYXWeqgR_h01eezhjNd8kDUehGktlE3lT-5AOrji




That's all I've got.

~Cheryl

 

I can't help, but would run off with it if given the opportunity.

 

Thank you all very much for your help in identifying the brooch.

Very interesting!