At the time when Mainz still had its own city hallmark gold items were usually not hallmarked. Generally speaking only in some rare cases you find...
Dear all, I got my tax return this week and coincidentally there is an antique market today in my town. So I went there and I found an antique...
In my opinion ist is a fake/copy: Cartier does only 18k and only very,very rarely 14k (older pieces up to 1940s, I have never seen younger ones),...
In Germany 950 is usually only used for platinum (Pt); for silver the most common silver alloys are/were 750, 800, 813, 830/835, 900, 925 and 935....
The craftsmanship on the back of the pendant is bad. If it was made of 18k gold, I would expect a much better quality/workmanship. I would go for...
None of the necklaces shown above are Lapis Lazuli; why don't you try an auction house, they often have Lapis Lazuli beads necklaces
Tagua nut maybe?
I went through the thread, but it seems this one is still not solved; the writing looks like Kurrent to me, the common script used in Germany...
and in addition they also use synthetic resin and different types of glue to stabilize the sponge coral... unfortunately the necklace is not worth...
Thanks for all the help. Will do the test with the UV light!
The hallmarks in the ring are neither Russian nor Soviet.
No, they are not Tagua nuts. my friend was told that they are amber. However the Baltic amber looks totally different. via Google I have just...
Dear all, a friend of mine has a necklace of some kind of natural beads (some kind of nut?). The beads are quite big, approximately 1in/2-2,5cm...
I still stick to the 20th century
Ancient Egyptian = more than 2000 years old? I don't think the above pendant is that old... for the moment my guess is 20th century. Could we see...
I am pretty sure that the ring is much younger than the hallmark; given the way it was cast I would date it in the 20th century
I had a further look at the Scully & Scully shell cufflinks, they all have different toggles, either a ball made of a (semi-)precious...
Problem is, there are similar ones by other companies, such as Trianon https://trianonjewelry.com/collections/shell-cufflinks So I would need a...
Maybe; that's what I want to find out. Is it from a known brand or is it an inspired copy? As this type of cufflinks is usually quite expensive,...
thanks, I haven't checked them/their hallmark yet; there were/are numerous companies that produced this type of cufflinks, some in Italy (but then...
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