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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 566287, member: 2844&quot;]As far as I know the oval cartouche mark was already used before WWII, it changed to a diamond shaped cartouche in 1959.</p><p>The name La Argentina means the silver one, btw, after the silver riches, which atttracted the Spanish in the first place. Silver objects have been made in Argentina for thousands of years.</p><p>The floral repoussé style is classic colonial Argentinian, I remember it from the gaucho knives and other silver my father brought back for us when I was a child.</p><p>Although there are many people of Italian descent in Argentina, the Argentinians never needed the Italians for either silvercraft or marks, they were doing a pretty good job on their own.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Different gaucho knives:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/facon/criollo01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/facon/criollo.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/facon/criollo.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/facon/criollo.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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