Featured Keyring

I wonder if anyone has come across the keyring before. Both pieces are hallmarked. I presume the RV was added later and is the previous owners initials. Correct me if I am wrong, but the hallmarks appear to indicate Sheffield, 1994. As to LL, I don't have a clue! Google lens pulls up pages of a Tiffany keyring that is very similar. The total weight is 15 grams.

As always, thanks to all who chip in!

With warmest regards,
Adam.

 

Birmingham

 

Sheffield, 1993:

(from https://silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Sheffield/Cycle 1975-1999.html )

 

Oooopsy !!!

but wait.........looks like both marks are there.....??

the tag added later....... by a retailer , maybe !!

 

Both 'LL' and both 1993, yet one Sheffield and the other Birmingham. Curious.

 

A marriage. Which explains which the two elements do go together visually.

Debora

 

The Links of London rings that Google shows, look like this

I haven't been able to find any LL items with the rectangular fob.

 

The 'LL' is a sponsor's mark, the entity responsible for quality and fees, while often a maker's mark, it can also be a retailer like Links of London, an importer, or wholesaler. This company had their mark registered at London, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Edinburgh assay offices, and a manufacturer would have use of their punch, the item stamped prior to assay - would suggest that the two parts were produced for LL at different workshops. Links of London did quite a few corporate gifts, since the 'RC' appears to be stamped rather than engraved, might look into it being a logo...

~Cheryl

 

Spot on Cheryl.


It’s absolutely not a marriage, these key rings were sold in the tens of thousands as gifts. Links is simply the branding.

it might be a logo, it looks vaguely familiar, but they did offer these with monograms.

 

Given its complexity of design, may well be a corporate logo rather than a monogram.

Debora

 

It ought to be a British logo, if that's what it is, but I can't think who. It's a dogtag fob and they called them Key Keepers.

 

Looks kinda 1970s-1980s.

Debora

 

Company founded in 1990:

https://links.london/the-complete-history-of-links-of-london/


~Cheryl

 

Sorry. I wasn't clear. The RV logo from that period when Art Nouveau was a design influence.

Debora

 

They did some travel stuff, Concorde and all that, and VSOE as well. I'm still pondering.

 

Definitely a corporate logo. Such things turn up here made for smallish firms, and without more to go on sometimes you never know whodunnit.

 

They weren’t cheap to have done, three figures from memory.

 

Assuming this is in the UK? If so, does the government have a trademark search page like the US does?

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results

Debora