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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 351385, member: 56"]Need a better look at the mark. I'm not getting a sense of the face in the kokoshnik mark (the oval with the numbers). 88 indicates a silver purity of 916. There may be tiny initials on the right end of that oval that would indicate the assayer (not that I have those resources).</p><p><br /></p><p>The other mark looks to me like it might be AK. All I can say is I don't find a probable match to any Faberge workmaster in my scant references, but there were plenty of fine gold and silversmiths in Russia besides those associated with Faberge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 351385, member: 56"]Need a better look at the mark. I'm not getting a sense of the face in the kokoshnik mark (the oval with the numbers). 88 indicates a silver purity of 916. There may be tiny initials on the right end of that oval that would indicate the assayer (not that I have those resources). The other mark looks to me like it might be AK. All I can say is I don't find a probable match to any Faberge workmaster in my scant references, but there were plenty of fine gold and silversmiths in Russia besides those associated with Faberge.[/QUOTE]
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