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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RuthEP, post: 10174410, member: 84346&quot;]That&#039;s definitely a solid direction. I&#039;ll try and find similar contemporaries. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Polish or Russian stamps? Do you hapen to remember?</p><p>Actually, filigree silver is a very typical Polish/Russian Jewish technique. There are thousands of artefacts in various collections.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! Yes, it has a prestigious provenance. It belongs to the estate of the second Israeli president, Yitzhak Ben Tzvi, native of Russian Empire (now Ukraine), deceased 1963. While received as a gift for his 70th birthday, it probably reminded him of home in the town of Poltava.</p><p>The lamp you found is very Austrian and while the general design is that of a lamp and so similar, the details are very much unlike - for example, the repousse work, the rail design, the flowers, all of which can be found on numerous non-jewish silver objects from Austria. The lamp at hand is more folk-artsy-Polish-Russian, albeit a very well made one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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