Featured Chinese maker's mark on silver. Help please.

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Any Jewelry, Sep 6, 2019.

  1. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    This Canton enamel silver hairpin has AJ written all over it.;)
    But someone else got there before me, and I would like to know who.

    So please, @Silver Wolf , @JayBee , @Asian Fever (if you are here), anyone else, could you help me find out who made this lovely?

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  2. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    SOOO LOVELY! I hope someone will be able to help with the Chinese mark:)
     
  3. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Kyra is acting innocent but bet she snagged it. :joyful:
     
  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Thanks kyra.:kiss:
    :smuggrin::playful:
     
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  5. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    No, no, but if I saw it... I could have!:joyful:
     
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  6. James Conrad

    James Conrad Well-Known Member

    The ONE that got away! It happens, no doubt, still misses my ruth box that was snatched away from me many years ago.
     
  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I know....:(
     
  8. Silver Wolf

    Silver Wolf Well-Known Member

    the first word it wrote wang 王 it mean king but could be surname family,the second word i can't recognize it :oops::oops:
     
  9. Silver Wolf

    Silver Wolf Well-Known Member

    if you have clay toy you can try to put the mark there,i think it'll be more easier to recognize :blackeye:
     
  10. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    THAT is ONE GORGEOUS PIN!!!! And I see why Kyra MIGHT be suspect with those three small bugs!!:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::D:D:D Don't know that you needed that signature enhanced, but it's been a bit here......well now THAT got waaaay big!!! Let me know & I can reduce it.....sorry!!
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  11. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    Forgot completely......INVERSED.....as in pushed into clay.....

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  12. Silver Wolf

    Silver Wolf Well-Known Member

    i think the first word is not wang but yu 玉 it means jade or precious
     
  13. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Thank you, @Silver Wolf . Jade works perfectly for me.:happy:
    I know Yu is also used in first and last names in China.
     
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  14. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    @Aquitaine , you are a gem, thanks for pushing my pin into clay.;):kiss:
     
  15. Silver Wolf

    Silver Wolf Well-Known Member

    i think i ever see mark with the front word of yu,but it's kind of imari made in hongkong of 70-90s.but this one it looks older,and i don't think they are make the cloissone hair pin too!
     
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  16. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I wouldn't think so.:playful:
    Yes, this one is an oldie, probably late Qing, late 19th century.
     
  17. Silver Wolf

    Silver Wolf Well-Known Member

    i thought so.late 19th will be right date for this one!
     
  18. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    You're Welcome, AJ!!!
     
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  19. Dundun

    Dundun Member

    Thanks for asking. I know nothing about pin or silver, but i do know Chinese. :)

    @Silver Wolf is right, the first chinese character is 玉(Yu), which means Jade.

    The 3 chinese characters are: 玉顺行, of course with a vertical layout:

    玉 Yu, meaning Jad
    顺 Shun, roughly meaning lucky or smooth.
    行 Hang, meaning workshop/company/shop.

    so it looks like the mark of a shop.

    I tried to google it in Chinese, but unfortunately no meaningful result. :(

    One detail interesting is. It's in Simplified Chinese, but not Traditional Chinese.

    Here is the Traditional Chinese of the same 3 characters: 玉順行. You can notice that the second one '順' is different(right half) comparing to the simplified version 顺. The simplified Chinese is mainly used in mainland China since 1949, not in Hongkong or Taiwan even today.

    Does it imply that this pin is from mainland china after 1949? Possible, but i am not sure.

    Hope it helps. it's my first translation help! :)
     
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  20. Asian Fever

    Asian Fever Well-Known Member

    DunDun is right! Good job
     
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