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Brent

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 11:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Hello all,

Here are two dissimilar modernist hors d'eourve or condiment servers by the same maker. They are thin, undecorated on the reverse, and have at least some hand-work. The mark looks familiar to me, but I can't place it. There are rays of the sun at the top, a mark the looks like a combined C and A, or possibly a C and a teepee, with 925 beneath. I was wondering if it were Native American. Does anyone recognize it?

Brent

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doc

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 01:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for doc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I cannot help with maker identification, but the mark looks like an A superimposed over a C to me.

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Silver Lyon

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 01:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Silver Lyon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Look at the Icelandic link so cleverly provided by Blakstone!
There is a description of this mark and the maker to whom it belonged. smile
The link is entitled:
'Because you never know . . .'
and is to be found in the Continental forum.

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Brent

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 10:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Amazing! Thanks for remembering this; I hadn't. I guess it did come in handy someday! Wonder how some Icelandic silver made it to Indiana.

Thanks again!

Brent

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Dale

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2006 01:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dale     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
'Wonder how some Icelandic silver made it to Indiana.'

Bad Karma, wink, Dale

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Silver Lyon

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2006 04:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Silver Lyon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Could some clever person who reads / understands Icelandic please tell us what the link says about this maker and his marks please?

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FWG

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iconnumber posted 09-22-2006 06:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FWG     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't know about clever, but I can make out some of it until someone who really knows Icelandic comes along. Unfortunately it's not too exciting, at least what I can rough out. My apologies for any mistakes; I don't have a good Icelandic dictionary.

The heading refers to a few principal silvermarks from Iceland (for a 20th anniversary?); the following text then simply describes the mark (that of Guðlaugs A. Magnússonar, GAM under a rising sun with the standard 925 at the bottom). I believe it then says the mark came into use in 1946, that there was an earlier mark from 1924 of GAM with purity marks, and from 1950 to 1962 the mark of Guðlaugi (ERNA?) with a year mark. The following paragraphs are on the marks of other firms, ending up with ERNA (the website's owner, a jewelry firm dating from 1924); I think the other firms also were merged into ERNA.

Here's his biographical information, which seems to get more detailed, from another of their pages; I don't have the energy right now to work through the translation:

quote:
Guðlaugur A. Magnússon, gullsmiður hóf starfsemi sína á Ísafirði í febrúar 1924 með gull- og silfursmíðaverkstæði ásamt tilheyrandi verslun með framleiðslu verkstæðisins.

Til Reykjavíkur fluttist verkstæðið 1927 og hefur starfað hér síðan.

1936 er svo hafin framleiðsla á borðbúnaði úr silfri. Fyrsta vélin var keypt í janúar sama ár sem var pressa smíðuð af Vélsmiðjunni Héðni í Reykjavík og er varðveitt í Árbæjarsafni ásamt ýmsum gömlum stönsum úr smiðjunni. Fyrirtækið hefur þróast jafnt og þétt og er nú búið þeim fullkomnustu vélum og verkfærum, sem þekkist í þessari iðn.

Til gamans má geta þess að árið 1946, framleiddi verksmiðjan úr 497 kg af silfri, 925/1000 Sterling, og ennfremur úr 3 kg af gulli. Starfsmenn verksmiðjunnar voru þá átta.

Í ágúst 1947 var fyrirtækið gert að hlutafélagi undir nafninu Gull- og silfursmiðjan Erna h/f og var fyrsta stjórnin skipuð þannig: formaður Guðlaugur A. Magnússon, ritari Jens Guðjónsson og meðstjórnandi Stefán Albertsson. Forstjóri var Guðlaugur A. Magnússon.

Í dag er smíði minjagripa og skartgripa um helmingur framleiðslunnar á móti smíði borðbúnaðar. Enn er fornt handverk í hávegum haft og flestir munir handsmíðaðir.

Framkvæmdastjóri er Sara Steina dóttir Reynis Guðlaugssonar meistara smiðjunnar frá 1952 til 2001.


The gist of it seems to be, he started working in 1924 in gold and silver, relocated to Reykjavik in 1927, began making plated table wares in 1936; the firm incorporated in 1947; today the firm makes souvenirs and jewelry, working in plate, sterling and gold, and about half their production is tableware, with some handwork still being done.

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