Featured Help needed to decipher this cypher!

Discussion in 'Silver' started by kactus 100, Feb 17, 2019.

  1. kactus 100

    kactus 100 Active Member

    hi - I have seen this on a silver cigarette box and I can't work out if it is just a nice decoration or a royal cypher of some sort. I have added on the photo all the hallmark that is on the box - if it helps. any info will be gladly received. thanks

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    kactus 100, Feb 17, 2019
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  2. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    I see RTW (or some variation thereof). Not sure what it'd stand for, though. '900' is 90% silver purity. Not sure what the other mark is.
     
    Shangas, Feb 17, 2019
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  3. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    R, T oF, W, :cyclops: I think :joyful:
    Maybe the crown is a royal one?
     
    kyratango, Feb 17, 2019
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    R F & maybe W, not sure whether that's a letter or ornamentation.
     
    Bronwen, Feb 17, 2019
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  5. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    kyratango, Feb 17, 2019
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  6. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    Nice, Kyra.
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    sabre123, Feb 17, 2019
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  7. kactus 100

    kactus 100 Active Member

    wow, you lot are amazing! i would never have found that out! thank you x 100
     
    kactus 100, Feb 17, 2019
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  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Since the R is in the center, it probably ...

    I was being distracted while trying to write this post, so got delayed, but was just just about to say that the R probably goes last & may stand for Rex rather than part of the name & had just proposed Frederick Wilhelm to my conversation partner. Great confirmation kyra & sabre. :)
     
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  9. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    that's a hard one. many old Prussian cities had a cross in their silvermark. Königsberg, Berlin, Elbing etc.
     
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