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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 616232, member: 2844&quot;]I know, this is a difficult one, but we have some search geniuses, and genius Frenchies<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> on board. [USER=5006]@kyratango[/USER]?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It is a delicate French lavalier(e) necklace, silver, with boar&#039;s head mark on the clasp.</p><p>The central part is gold with a silver front and clear stones set in millegrain settings and a Med red coral pendant.</p><p>Given the gold back and silver front with millegrain, I think it is early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The maker&#039;s mark is a G in the top of the diamond shape, and an R at the bottom. Dividing the two letters is what looks like a three masted ship.</p><p>Does anyone recognize the mark, and know during which period GR worked?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>The central part:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]180556[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Boar&#039;s head mark for .800 silver on clasp:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]180557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Maker&#039;s mark GR with ship? on the back of the gold central part. These marks are always tiny and difficult to photograph, I hope you can discern enough:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]180558[/ATTACH]</p><p>The top mark is the same as the bottom mark, just sideways and incomplete. The bottom mark is complete, and the right way up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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