because of the number stamped at the bottom. Wilkens numbered all their hollow ware pieces... the last item produced in 1892 has the numer 89797,...
the marks indicate Germany, 925 for sterling silver and 585 for 14k gold.
The water pitcher was made in 1893
That was quick! Thanks a lot!
I have a set of cufflinks and studs (unfortunately three studs have been lost over time). They seem to depict a city or an exhibition/fair. I have...
Let's agree to disagree
I beg to differ, both brooches have been cast with a technique developed in the 1950s. In the 1970s and 1980s many reproductions of older pieces...
Sometimes there is an additional gilding on top of the gold. The gilding usually is fine gold (999) or another very high fineness (900 and...
I think the stars brooches on the left and right are modern copies/reproductions after older originals. The stars-brooches became very...
Gilded metal and the stones are glas and false pearls
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...
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