It can be english if we can see four different hallmarks.
For me it's more a lion's head than a gryphon, when you turn the picture on the screen? [IMG]
I'ts a french mantelclock, I haven't taken the movment in my workshop but it was a "mouvement de Paris" with single bell for hours and half hours....
Austo-hungarn make a lot of those silver filled items at first on an industrial basis, before filling was made since the Antiquity most on...
As a complementary information, for cleaning very delicate items or items which is not possible to use water or liquid based media, like when it's...
If I remember you found the hallmark with a lion and flame in a cartouche in Tardy's book, with more time at home I look exactly about my...
Thanks, that confirmes what we think about the date, stylistically the same idea with a portrait cartouche and foliages in the front for opening...
It was what we called toaday a loupe, made for reading or looking something you can't see without glasses. I have one dating from the beginning of...
A nice classical snuffbox, quality was for the independent worker, somebody who can pay around 3-400$ actually for his vice container. ;-) This is...
The french name used by commercial antiquities sellers or auctioneers is “face à main“ for the item to the left you ask about, in french...
Thanks for your searches, the photography is a later remembrance addition, as very often seen on items concernig kings or emprors and can be from...
Thanks to confirm my opinion, 1849 is certainly right, stylistically, if it was 1819, it will be really different, in France they call this design...
I have a good austro-hungarian snuffbox which is well hallmarked but not clearly on a side of the date, for me it can be 1849, the photography is...
Classical original seller mark price or reference, this can be seen very often under items from this period.
Nothing to do with skeleton technic, which is by piercing and making a pattern through something using the function as a decorative way. A simple...
No more to say than my predecessors, just a technical precision, this is an overcast item, it was in a past time an original inkwell of good...
Case at least is swiss, the hallmark with an edelweiss is one of the marks for silver at .800 here for export in germany.
Swiss original hallmarks are on the left, bear standing for .875 and more, the small one is normally a flower, an edelweiss or in french a...
No problem LibrarxLady, the english system is very easy for dating through those letters, but here it's a problem with the number, totally...
Does that help you ? It's not your item, bizarre… This Rd is for glass on the registers. Catalogue description Registered design number: 172352....
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