Featured Urg. Recent silver jewellery mark

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Ownedbybear, Nov 25, 2018.

  1. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Sorry, this is a rubbish photo, I'll try for a better one tomorrow. Ignore the right hand blurred marks, they're London import silver for 1997.

    The left hand mark is a crown over what looks like a stylised sideways shield with what might be KS. Really heavy articulated torc. So I think it has to be a decent maker.

    Thoughts?

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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is gorgeous, obb. S925 could be Scandinavian. Danish, maybe Norwegian?
     
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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I'm thinking Scandi. It's heavy: close on three ounces.
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Those Scandinavians know quality.:)
     
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  5. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

  6. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Hmmmmm.....

    Better photos, anyhow!

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  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I can see the crown now, but it is not a mark I know. Most sites and books concentrate on antique and/or Modernist silver from Denmark and Norway, but this is later. The maker may have started after the Modernist era.
     
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  8. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    It's certainly recent - as I say, the import mark is 1997.

    I wore it tonight, so there's every chance it may never leave me. ;)
     
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  9. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Modern Irish mark maybe? I've never seen that before either. It doesn't feel American, with with artisans who knows.
     
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  10. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I know the feeling. Been there, done that, read the book, etc.....:D
     
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  11. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Irish wouldn't have an import mark though, it would have the harp. I'm certainly in the Scandi camp. Oh well, I'll find out one day!
     
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  12. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Denmark's a possibility; the Norwegians and Swedes mark the holy hobgoblins out of their work.
     
  13. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The Swedish do, but the Norwegians don't.
     
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  14. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Shows how much I know about modern stuff; in the Victorian era they did.
     
  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    :)
    The well-known makers did, but lesser or provincial silversmiths often didn't. In 1891 it changed to the current, very basic, system.
     
  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Too bad for us.
     
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