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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3931199, member: 111&quot;]Sorry, it was a quick late-night post - guessing you were looking at the &#039;12&#039; as a löthige/lødigt mark...</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1st mark is the city gates of Bergen over seven balls symbolizing the seven hills; the 2nd mark, &#039;H&#039; over &#039;W&#039; (Warden), belonged to Bergen assay-master Christen Hoff, in office 1820-61; the 3rd mark, &#039;CGN&#039;, was the maker; the 4th mark indicates the month it was assayed, &#039;12&#039; over &#039;M&#039; for December; the 5th mark indicates the year it was assayed, 1840.&nbsp; There could have been a 6th mark present indicating the quality in lødigt, but since there isn&#039;t, would be at least the lowest acceptable standard in the 19th century, 13-1/4 lød (just a bit over 828/1000).&nbsp; The lady depicted would be the Greek goddess Demeter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your maker should be Carl Gustav Nettergreen, he was Swedish, born in Stockholm, and registered there as a goldsmith in 1834, he then managed the Bergen workshop of Jenny Høgh, the widow of Johan Christian Høgh, from 1837-39, registered as a goldsmith in Bergen in 1839, married Jenny Høgh in 1840, and died sometime in the 1870s.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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