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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 26992, member: 111"]Probably about right on dating, though it could be earlier - Spanish Colonial, Guatemalan. Those marks can be found both alone and together, my eyesight is too poor to make it out in your pic, but the 'mountain' mark is usually Santiago (St. James) on horseback over the twin volcanoes at the old capital of Santiago de los Caballeros de Goathemala (Antigua), though it sometimes has one or three peaks, and can have a lion rather than Santiago. Boylan's 'Spanish Colonial Silver' doesn't address that mark falling out of use after the 1773 earthquake and volcanic eruptions as in this link, but it doesn't seem unlikely: <a href="http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=33223" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=33223" rel="nofollow">http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=33223</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Don't find any similar form in the Boylan book, but it's a nice-looking piece - what's the size?</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 26992, member: 111"]Probably about right on dating, though it could be earlier - Spanish Colonial, Guatemalan. Those marks can be found both alone and together, my eyesight is too poor to make it out in your pic, but the 'mountain' mark is usually Santiago (St. James) on horseback over the twin volcanoes at the old capital of Santiago de los Caballeros de Goathemala (Antigua), though it sometimes has one or three peaks, and can have a lion rather than Santiago. Boylan's 'Spanish Colonial Silver' doesn't address that mark falling out of use after the 1773 earthquake and volcanic eruptions as in this link, but it doesn't seem unlikely: [url]http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=33223[/url] Don't find any similar form in the Boylan book, but it's a nice-looking piece - what's the size? ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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