Featured Need professional help. Big silver vase or plate

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Igor Voroniuk, Aug 21, 2019.

  1. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    Hello, friends. Need help to identify this piece of art silversmith. This big silver vase have only mark KH 800
    And 2 words on 1 leg Spazza and on another side Guai, I've check it is Italian words. The weight in 949 gramm. I have red a lot of information but didn't find such mark. Maybe someone know who is the master KH and what is the country of manufacture?
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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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    Can you get photos of these marks? I would say Italian except K & H are not the first letter of very many Italian words/names. Could be Germans working in Italy, something like that. The 800 fineness would be consistent with a European origin.
     
  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Can we see the words you mentioned that appear on the legs?
     
  4. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    800 means 800 silver, less than sterling which is 925. Your piece looks like a bowl, not a vase, am I seeing it correctly?
     
  5. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Spazza in Italian means "Sweeps" in English. Guai means "trouble" in English. This doesn't make any sense to me.
     
  6. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    Happy to see your replies. Here some more photo. I've surfed the internet and as i understand the KH looks like German mark but Italian words said about Italian market as I understood.
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  7. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    Maybe it is special ritual or tradition? I've found such souvenir on Ebay
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  8. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Hm. I wonder if it's a tradename?
     
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  9. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    our colleague from another forum didn't find any Trademarks or Re-sellers with such name in Italy.
     
  10. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    But it was good to check!
     
  11. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    I thought, maybe legs has been added after plate was made?
     
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  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    This is fascinating. Sweep trouble away - I love the brooms. However, IM Translator informs me that 'aguaio' means 'pottery'. We need to see 'spazza' also.
     
  13. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    I've check solder and it is hard, so legs has been added before gild. Maybe Spazza Guai due to form of legs?
     
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  14. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    I've added photo of Spazza. Check it
     
  15. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I do not see a picture of the Spazza leg.
     
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  16. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Where?
     
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  17. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    I wonder who wired and soldered the leg together after it was damaged.
     
  18. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    Here it is:
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  19. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    But we cannot see the word Spazza, which was the point of the request.
     
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  20. Igor Voroniuk

    Igor Voroniuk Member

    The solder is hard and vase do not have any places with damages.
     
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