Germany, industrial production. I would take them to a goldsmith to have the loops soldered, otherwise you could loose the dangles one day
Well, they might be rare, but certainly aren't one of a kind...
The napkin rings were part of a bigger set, there were entire sets of cutlery with the Wagner Opera motifs, esp. spoons. You find them regularly...
Austrian marks have an additional letter indicating the province and even in the provinces the pieces had to be marked (tax purposes...). The...
German, neither Austrian nor Swiss. To my knowledge Switzerland never had 935 silver, until 1933 they had 800 and 875, after 1933 800 and 925....
The book on Bengel was written by Mrs Weber-Stöber, she is the director of the Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau, Germany (right next to Frankfurt):...
Just enter United States instead of a post code, then you get all the libraries in the US and Canada, the nearest ones are in Chicago:...
Maybe you can find the book(s) in a library near you: https://www.worldcat.org/
The blue ones are glass buttons, they were once coloured and my guess would be that they were supposed to imitate mille fiori
though the word déposé is French, it does not mean that the brooch is French. The same word was used by German companys (esp. in Pforzheim where...
Thanks a lot!
I have been given a sifter/slotted spoon and now I‘m looking for further information. The spoon is 7.5 in/19cm long. I think the maker is Gorham,...
I' sorry, but the buttons of No 6 are part of a dress set/shirt buttons set. In addition to a pair of cufflinks a set usually consists of 3 or 4...
No 1. are cufflinks; the cuffs of shirts were a bit different from today's cuffs and they (as well as the collars) were in interchangable. You...
so here is a picture of the back of the cufflinks, there are no marks/hallmarks [ATTACH]
No 1. are cufflinks, around 1870-1890, the links with the two very specific fasteners on the back existed only around this time. No 6. are shirt...
Could you please help me identifying the Roman Gods on the cufflinks? My guess is Mercurius/Mercury on the left and Minerva on the right. Consent...
You should get it tested. For the moment I think the brooch is plated. The German hallmarking system is a bit peculiar. For one hallmarking is...
I think there is a misunderstanding, what you call the "floral detail" is what I call prongs (couldn't think of a better word). The "petals" are...
The first cultured pearls (Mikimoto) were only used in jewellery starting around 1925. Given that the pearls are also set with prongs (I would...
Separate names with a comma.
