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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 284440, member: 2844&quot;]I think you may have a nice pre-1807 piece of Frisian silver, made in the town of Leeuwarden. Friesland is a province in the north of The Netherlands, Leeuwarden is the capital of Friesland.</p><p>If I am right, this is valuable, every silver collector in The Netherlands has to have at least one piece of Frisian silver.</p><p>Check this page, halfway down under <b>City of Leeuwarden</b>:</p><p><a href="http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=32028" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=32028" rel="nofollow">http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=32028</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:</p><p>I was a bit hesitant in writing the above, because your piece, while nice, doesn&#039;t have the Frisian quality I am used to.</p><p>I did a bit of research, and it seems I am not the only one who came across this. A recent study found evidence that some Frisian silversmiths bought silver objects in Amsterdam and struck them with their own mark. Friesland was semi-independent at the time, and did not have the guild and marking control the other provinces had. Frisian silversmiths also struck their own guarantee marks at the time, so you may want to test the silver content.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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