Featured Henry Griffith and Sons Connemera Pin

Are you retaking the pictures?

 

When you can, see whether you can get a focus on that punch to the left of the 925.

The 925 has only been used since 1999 so the pin is fairly new.

 

Does this help?

 

The best I could pull out of Topaz's Gigapixel AI: To the left of the 925, it looks like either 1x or 1 and a smaller 3.....to me....don't know what that symbol is in the square to the right of the 925?....oh wait....maybe a Y! Next image down, those were SOME TINY MARKS!!!! DO NOT know the left one, middle could be either 825 or 925?? and right....too bright a spot for me to see well, but could be a "y"! And I believe you said you knew the last one.....BUT I LOVE the pin!!!!

 

Thanks, Mill Cove. It's bigger and it's clearer, but it doesn't look like anything I've ever seen on a set of British silver marks.

 

Can't be Dublin. They don't use the 925 and that's Ireland, not England.

 

The square next to 925 almost looks like a badly stamped 5.

 

It is a cutie, inh.
The .925 in an oval cartouche has been an Irish import mark for over a century. In this case import from the UK after independence would make sense. So does Sasaná, Irish Gaelic for England.
Here is a photo of the Irish import marks page from Tardy's:



The import date letter on your lucky brooch looks like a Y in a square. If it is, it means it was imported into Ireland in 1966.
http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Dublin/Date Letters Y.html
This is just the import info. The brooch could have been made at any time before import in 1966, so I hope someone has more information on what looks like a Henry Griffith mark.

 

I know it gets said much that we didn't use 925 before the 90s, or that it means newer, but that's really not true. I have a Charles Horner hatpin, for example, clearly marked 925 and have seen other pieces of a similar age with 925 on them.

The Common Control mark, which has been an option since 1976 in the UK does have the option to use 925 as part of a set of hallmarks, but it's quite different.

aj is spot on, those are Irish import marks. The HG&S and the written script look older than 1966 to me. I'd need to go find my big Jacksons to check the date, I suspect it's earlier.

 

Agree, it feels earlier and the general style looks earlier too.