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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3248405, member: 2844&quot;]It is gorgeous, K, and a classic Dutch silver miniature. Originally silver miniatures were made for those amazing Dutch doll&#039;s houses, but they expanded the range of subjects to include pieces like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course you were.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":smug:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The key thing is complicated.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The easy part is that it was used between 1853 and 1953.</p><p>This is the complicated part:</p><p>It is not an export mark as such, but it is meant to mark a piece that was elligible for a tax return when exported. This is just for the first key, the one which is not attached to the assay mark (sword in this case).</p><p>When it was decided a piece with the first key mark was not to be exported after all, but was to remain in the Netherlands, it was marked with the second key, which is attached to the assay mark. This could be done only if tax hadn&#039;t been returned yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>So your gorgeous horse and sleigh was going to be exported, and then wasn&#039;t.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /> No tax was ever returned (bummer).</p><p>It still ended up in the UK.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In case someone else comes across this info, this is not applicable here:</p><p>There are other cases in which the second key can be marked, or even be marked without there ever having been a first key. For instance, on silver brought back into the Netherlands by families returning from Dutch East India.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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