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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10656945, member: 111&quot;]Well, pondered on this for a while, then hunger hit and took time to make a nice little pizza, and now I&#039;m stuffed and drowsy - but here are my thoughts:</p><p><br /></p><p>Like AJ, the design looks to me more German Jugendstil than Danish Skønvirke, and German makers definitely made .830 silver for the Danish market but seldom used the &#039;S&#039; suffix.&nbsp; Can&#039;t say I know of a &#039;B.H.&#039; German maker, but that means little since there were just so many.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen numerous Bernhard Hertz marks, serifed and sans-serif, with and without periods, stamped incuse like this and in a rectangular cartouche, they were prolific and in business for a long time - it looks like a Bernhard Hertz stamp but while a variety of other marks appear on their goods, that unusual italic &#039;830S&#039; is unfamiliar to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Haven&#039;t seen any indication that Hertz retailed other makers goods when this piece was made, it&#039;s possible, but at the time they had a large factory in Copenhagen as well as a workshop in Stockholm, Sweden (their maker&#039;s mark there &#039;ABH&#039;).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I have no definitive answer, and personally, if selling, would mention Bernard Hertz, but wouldn&#039;t firmly identify it as their production (&#039;believed to be&#039;, &#039;attributed to&#039;, whatever)...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another brooch with the same marks, and also looking more Jugendstil than Skønvirke (quite nice Swedish dealer, I&#039;ve bought from them):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://tniklassongallery.com/products/bernhard-hertz-denmark-art-nouveau-830-silver-butterfly-floral-brooch?srsltid=AfmBOooALRQXnSidWYXWeqgR_h01eezhjNd8kDUehGktlE3lT-5AOrji" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://tniklassongallery.com/products/bernhard-hertz-denmark-art-nouveau-830-silver-butterfly-floral-brooch?srsltid=AfmBOooALRQXnSidWYXWeqgR_h01eezhjNd8kDUehGktlE3lT-5AOrji" rel="nofollow">https://tniklassongallery.com/products/bernhard-hertz-denmark-art-nouveau-830-silver-butterfly-floral-brooch?srsltid=AfmBOooALRQXnSidWYXWeqgR_h01eezhjNd8kDUehGktlE3lT-5AOrji</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533012[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s all I&#039;ve got.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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