Featured Spanish(?) Solid 900 Silver Plate

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Shangas, Dec 10, 2017.

  1. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Picked this up at the flea-market today from a chap I know who was selling off cheap silverware. It's marked "Hecho a Mano" on the base ("handmade"), and next to it, is '900' in a circle, for 90% silver.

    Not sure if this is Spanish or Mexican. My buddy tends to collect and deal in European silver, so I suspect more Spanish.

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    It measures just under 8 inches from side to side.

    Here it is with my child's sterling silver cutlery set from the 1890s:

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    Close-up of the marks:

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    Christmasjoy, judy and Any Jewelry like this.
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Spain usually has assay and town marks, and often maker's marks as well.As fars as I know, there always has to be some official mark, 900 in a circle is not one of the official Spanish marks.
    Could be South American. Or the Philippines maybe?
     
  3. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Well somewhere where Spanish is a language, because the other 'mark' is in Spanish. If not Spain, I assumed Mexico or south America.
     
  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Not your usual Mexican mark. Don't know anything about Philipino silver marks, but it could be Chile.
     
    Last edited: Dec 10, 2017
  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I'd say not Spanish - it would have proper marks and also probably say Plata de Ley. I've had silver from Peru with similar marks.
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It wouldn't say Plata de Ley if the item is 900, only if it is 925. But nothing about the mark says Spain to me. Or Mexico.
    I agree, much further south, South America.
     
  7. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    It’s Chilean, same marks that you see on Dittrich & Silberfeld items.
     
  8. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Chilean huh?? That's a long way from home!!

    Thanks :)
     
  9. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    "Hecho a Mano" is spanish for handmade .
     
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