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FWG

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iconnumber posted 02-18-2007 04:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FWG     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Picked this up at a show recently, as I couldn't resist the chunky Futurist-influenced lines. In the rush of the show I assumed it was Russian, but when I got home to check it out I found it was Latvian.




The maker's mark is presumably the leftmost. Next is the Lativan standard mark, then a head that Tardy identifies as indicating a remarked article. The remarked article head also appears on the spout; perhaps it was a later addition? But there's no sign of a handle removal on that side, and I can't imagine what it might've been without that spout.

Presumably this is from a period when Latvia was not under Soviet control? My knowledge of the history of that part of the world is unfortunately not very detailed. Can anyone help out?

In addition to the date 7.V.1937 engraved on the side are two engravings at the top, one in block letters XL and the other in Cyrillic, possibly AZ. In the top view you can also just make out the way the vessel was pierced for the spout, with just two overlapping round holes one above the other.

It's purely coincidental, but I also posted a 1937 Kiev piece in the general forum today....

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FWG

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iconnumber posted 02-19-2007 09:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for FWG     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Scott, and sorry about that -- I didn't remember the new dimension, checked another recent post and saw one at 749 wide so I mistakenly thought it was 750.

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iconnumber posted 02-19-2007 04:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Do you think that this creamer started out as a vase with both the handle and spout added at a later period? The somewhat oversized spout reminds me of the attractive spouts used on some English ceramic pitchers of the 1820s and 30s. Tucker also had some on his pitchers in the U.S.
The spout and handle are in the right proportion to each other and make for an interesting creamer.

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FWG

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iconnumber posted 02-20-2007 09:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for FWG     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's a possibility I hadn't considered. I checked, and the handle is completely unmarked; if both had been added and the spout is marked I'd've expected the handle also to have a mark. So, I don't know....

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kerppola

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iconnumber posted 02-21-2007 09:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kerppola     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The same marks are still used in Latvia so I think they have used these markings from the beginning of the first independence (after WWI).

I think the creamer is from 1920's or 30's as it is neoclassical in style. 1937 might be the exact year.

I have thought that the round mark in Latvian silver is just an additional assayers mark in addition to the main assayers mark so nothing to do with additions to the object. The same way as russian silver has a round assayers mark. Don't know why it has been stamped with both the main and additional assayers marks in same row. The spout has it because it is a separate part. In russian silver the round assayers mark is used together with the separate silver content mark or makers mark, when a silver object is made from several parts.

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