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agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 06-19-2007 01:29 PM Can any one help with the mark on a modernist cup. It is 2 5/8'" wide at its base and is a straight taper to 2 1/4" at the top which is cut in a slow curve (up and down) from 2 3/4" to 2" to 2 1/2" to 2". It is not well made (seamed not raised) but is finished well on the outside (polished smooth), on the inside are rough hammer marks where the solder seam of the bottom and the sides was slightly rounded. It has fire scale... The marks are STERLING HANDMADE and a shield divided into a top half with no texture and the bottom with checks, a serrated line separating the halves. In the top plain half are 2 walking wolves looking to the left and in the bottom is 1 wolf. I tried goolgling and a search here but no luck. My guess is an amateur, 1950-70. Thank you in advance! IP: Logged
Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 Registered: Apr 2000	posted 06-19-2007 02:46 PM Can you post a picture? The combination of amateur construction and what is apparently a professional quality maker's mark could suggest the work of a silversmithing class or group. An example of this is Great Falls Metal Works, the products of which, while varying tremendously in quality, always bear the group's own maker's stamp (GFMW in a circle). IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 06-20-2007 09:31 AM Paul, I will try! IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 06-27-2007 08:17 PM Images of side, inside, bottom and mark with 3 wolves. IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 07-26-2007 03:58 PM This little cup is in danger of going off to the melt! Anybody have a thought? THanks. IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 07-26-2007 08:01 PM Hello agleopar! Why would you want to destroy the piece, is it because you can't find out who the maker is? I don't know what your mark is (but I haven't done my homework either). Would you want me to chuck your pieces, because I can't ID your work? The cup may be a simple enough piece, & maybe it has no monetary, aesthetic, artistic or whatever value other than it's melt value, but to me the marks appear to be a well thought out mark. I'd personally keep trying to find the maker (it's the pit bull in me). Besides that it's an unusual shape. That said, it's your cup, your decision. That's my 3 cents worth. Thanks for listening. Enjoy the day! Jersey IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 07-26-2007 08:12 PM I'd like to ask our Australian members to give this another look..... To me there is a kangaroo in the mark. What do you think? IP: Logged
adelapt Posts: 418 Registered: May 2003	posted 07-27-2007 07:49 AM A genetically modified kangaroo maybe, but not the kind I usually see! I'd be more inclined to suspect a link between the mark and the armorial bearings of wherever it was made. IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 07-29-2007 10:53 PM Hi Jersey, I am trying to save it! And no, of course I'd like all my work to exist forever...(except the dogs!) Actually I like this little cup/vase/sugar bowl and if I owned it I would keep it until I had found out who made it. A good friend owns it and he is a dealer who buys scrap, usually damaged filled candle sticks and the like. He has never melted a good piece of silver but this to him is too modest and of no intrest. He tried to sell it and no one looked at it. So last week I fished it out of the scrap bucket and asked him to hold off until I tried you all again. They are wolves or foxes. IP: Logged
jersey Posts: 1203 Registered: Feb 2005	posted 03-06-2008 08:40 PM Hello agleopar! I must have been asleep (for a very long time)........& did not see your response. Thank you for keeping the piece. I did see somewhere a modernist sugar bowl that looked similar to the piece. Now the problem is where did I see it! Now that it has come to my attention, I'll ck my books etc. again. Also, maybe by now someone can shed more light on your maker. Dogs????? Enjoy the day! Jersey IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 03-07-2008 08:45 AM Thanks Jersey, it has gone to the big melting pot, not my choice... It is a shame that one can not keep all the unknowns and interesting things but it is after all an expensive metal. The images are still there and some day I hope some one will come up with a name. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 03-07-2008 09:45 AM Members who are going to be scrapping silver may want to give some of us a chance to "rescue" your scrap from melt. You can do this in the SSF Forsale Forum without being in conflict with the Guidelines. Since the spot silver $$ has been changing frequently, you may want to ask spot plus a % or $ in your post. IP: Logged
FWG Posts: 845 Registered: Aug 2005	posted 03-07-2008 02:37 PM What a shame. My position probably would've been that a piece that small wasn't worth scrapping - must've been under 2 ounces, no?- the curiosity value would be more than that. I do save a lot of pieces using that reasoning, but of course one can't save them all (at least not on an academic salary!).... IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 03-07-2008 08:35 PM Thanks Scott I will keep the Forsale Forum in mind. I am sure that the news that this cup has been melted upsets most of us, myself included. FWG I have saved a few pieces back when the price was $10/oz but now my budget does not cover $20+/oz... (If I remember it weighed 3.5oz) I would still like to know the maker, maybe a European maker working in the states? IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 03-31-2013 02:44 PM I'd like to bump this post back to the top of the page (maybe it has a German connection?) to see if anyone knows the mark. IP: Logged

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