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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4291979, member: 2844&quot;]Hanau was indeed a free-trade town which hosted Dutch and French (Huguenot) Calvinist silver/goldsmiths. They came long before this gorgeous little fan box was made.</p><p><br /></p><p>19th century and ca 1900 Hanau fake historic marks were in keeping with the style of the silverware to make it convincing. So historic French marks were used on French style silver, historic Dutch marks on the Dutch style etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of this box is German Historic Revival (German costumes, hats especially), so fake UK marks wouldn&#039;t make sense.</p><p>The import marks on the box are not historic marks, but regular 1900 marks, so not intended to be historic fakes.</p><p>My conclusion regarding the import marks: 1900 UK marks, by a 1900 assayer and a 1900 mark for a UK importer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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