Featured Chinese maker's mark on silver. Help please.

This Canton enamel silver hairpin has AJ written all over it.
But someone else got there before me, and I would like to know who.

So please, @Silver Wolf , @JayBee , @Asian Fever (if you are here), anyone else, could you help me find out who made this lovely?

 

SOOO LOVELY! I hope someone will be able to help with the Chinese mark

 

Kyra is acting innocent but bet she snagged it.

 

Thanks kyra.

 

No, no, but if I saw it... I could have!

 

The ONE that got away! It happens, no doubt, still misses my ruth box that was snatched away from me many years ago.

 

I know....

 

the first word it wrote wang 王 it mean king but could be surname family,the second word i can't recognize it

 

if you have clay toy you can try to put the mark there,i think it'll be more easier to recognize

 

THAT is ONE GORGEOUS PIN!!!! And I see why Kyra MIGHT be suspect with those three small bugs!! Don't know that you needed that signature enhanced, but it's been a bit here......well now THAT got waaaay big!!! Let me know & I can reduce it.....sorry!!

 

Forgot completely......INVERSED.....as in pushed into clay.....

 

i think the first word is not wang but yu 玉 it means jade or precious

 

Thank you, @Silver Wolf . Jade works perfectly for me.
I know Yu is also used in first and last names in China.

 

@Aquitaine , you are a gem, thanks for pushing my pin into clay.

 

i think i ever see mark with the front word of yu,but it's kind of imari made in hongkong of 70-90s.but this one it looks older,and i don't think they are make the cloissone hair pin too!

 

I wouldn't think so.
Yes, this one is an oldie, probably late Qing, late 19th century.

 

i thought so.late 19th will be right date for this one!

 

You're Welcome, AJ!!!

 

Thanks for asking. I know nothing about pin or silver, but i do know Chinese.

@Silver Wolf is right, the first chinese character is 玉(Yu), which means Jade.

The 3 chinese characters are: 玉顺行, of course with a vertical layout:

玉 Yu, meaning Jad
顺 Shun, roughly meaning lucky or smooth.
行 Hang, meaning workshop/company/shop.

so it looks like the mark of a shop.

I tried to google it in Chinese, but unfortunately no meaningful result.

One detail interesting is. It's in Simplified Chinese, but not Traditional Chinese.

Here is the Traditional Chinese of the same 3 characters: 玉順行. You can notice that the second one '順' is different(right half) comparing to the simplified version 顺. The simplified Chinese is mainly used in mainland China since 1949, not in Hongkong or Taiwan even today.

Does it imply that this pin is from mainland china after 1949? Possible, but i am not sure.

Hope it helps. it's my first translation help!

 

DunDun is right! Good job