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nihontochicken Posts: 289 Registered: May 2003	posted 04-14-2004 10:21 PM Have flogged my Tardy, but it still won't divulge the source of these hallmarks: Seems to me they are French, but I can't identify them. What am I missing here? TIA!!! IP: Logged
blakstone unregistered	posted 04-15-2004 03:18 PM I'm 95% sure that the crowned G is the mark for Guimaraes, Portugal used in the mid-19th century. (A very similar mark is on page 333 of my copy of Tardy - infernal, frustrating Tardy.) I'd try to get hold of a copy of "Marcas de contrastes e ourives portugueses" by Manuel Gon�alves Vidal and Fernando Moitinho de Almeida; vol. 1 has pretty much an exhaustive list of pre-1887 Portuguese marks. IP: Logged
nihontochicken Posts: 289 Registered: May 2003	posted 04-19-2004 12:19 PM Thanks for your feedback, blakstone. I had noticed the Portuguese marks in Tardy, but the "crown" didn't seem to match very well. Perhaps a better match is in the text you mention, but it doesn't sound like it's one that's available from the local library! I guess I'll have to try a lend request (which, unfortunately, seems to disappear into the void). Thanks again! IP: Logged
labarbedor Posts: 353 Registered: Jun 2002	posted 05-02-2004 12:15 AM I am sorry but the 5% wins. I can't make out all the marks, perhaps you should send them to me by email. In any case the Lorraine cross is a give away. The piece is certainly Saint-Omer, dep. of Lille, France. If I had to guess, I would say 1785. Could you tell me what the initials of the maker's mark are? Maurice IP: Logged
nihontochicken Posts: 289 Registered: May 2003	posted 05-03-2004 04:26 PM Thanks, larbarbedor! Now I see the correct mark on p.155 of Tardy, a day late and a dollar short! The pic was from a long distance transaction. Without a firm attribution, I let someone else scoop it up. Oh, well, sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers! Add another item to the "one that got away" list. IP: Logged
blakstone unregistered	posted 05-06-2004 02:52 PM I stand corrected. Mea Culpa. IP: Logged

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