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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silver, post: 318010, member: 6202&quot;]Thank you for that quick response.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is very interesting because I have identified another item of her silver (presented to her by an admirer in 1919) as being German silver made by Wilhelm Binder - Schwabisch Gmund.&nbsp; The Germans had a strong influence in the Ottoman Empire before the First World War so I suppose it is not surprising that German silverware found its way to Egypt around those times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the hallmark of that piece (a small vase).&nbsp; I gather the Crescent and Crown are the marks that identify German silver:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]105709[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that the Hanau silversmiths were a rather disreputable bunch (see <a href="http://www.ascasonline.org/articolox15.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ascasonline.org/articolox15.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ascasonline.org/articolox15.html</a>).&nbsp; I wonder what older hallmarks Simon Rosenau was imitating on my piece?&nbsp; Or am I misunderstanding the situation?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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