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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finnclouds, post: 9736261, member: 84680&quot;]The shape and style of the pretty dish look so Victorian English/European/American to me that my best guess is that it has been remarked somewhere, sometime, in the USSR. Note also that the letters H and M look older, rubbed. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Soviet mark was used sometime between 1927 and 1958 according to Tardy.&nbsp; The punch is marked with the letter Z for the city but I don’t know what that is.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I’m guessing the letters БЮ or BЮ, I can’t tell which one it is — could&nbsp; be the local jeweller’s/remarker’s as Ю is the first letter of&nbsp; ювелирная&nbsp; meaning jewellers.&nbsp; I read the mark after that as the number 2.&nbsp; That would make some sense as the artels, workshops, around the turn of the century were numbered. </p><p><br /></p><p>But this is just a guess.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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