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nautilusjv Posts: 253 |
posted 09-27-2011 06:19 PM
  
I just returned from London where I went to the Bermondsey Antique Market. Many good silver dealers there, knowledgeable and friendly with good prices. I picked up this French sterling sugar sifter/ladle with a gorgeous pierced fluted bowl that the dealer thought was late 19th century, but it seems to me to be earlier. It has a Minerva mark and also male head mark(is it Zeus with a beard)and the number 1 which seems to indicate a date of 1819-1838 I think but am not sure. Anyone have a good sense of French silver? The makers marks are "CD" which I could not find and there is another smaller mark between the 2 heads that I am not sure what it is. Thank you for any help as this piece is my first item of French silver. IP: Logged |
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blakstone Posts: 493 |
posted 09-28-2011 01:29 AM
Exactly right on the date; these were the marks in use 1819-1838. The upper mark (the head of Ceres) was the guarantee for large items assayed at the Paris office, and the lower mark (technically the head of Michelangelo, but commonly called “Le Vieillard” – “The Old Man”) was the Parisian mark for first standard silver: .950. However, “CD” is not the maker’s mark, but rather the owner’s initials; you often see them stamped on the reverse of the handle like this on French and Swiss silver. Rather, the small mark between the two heads is the maker’s mark, dreadfully worn. I can make out the central device of a hammer below a crescent (upside-down in your photo), but fortunately this is enough to identify it as the familiar mark of Jean-Baptiste-Vast Harleux, a prolific Parisian maker of small tableware, working from 1824 to 1875. This mark was used only to 1834, however, thus narrowly dating the saupoudreuse to ten years spanning the end Bourbon Restauration and the beginning of the July Monarchy: 1824-1834. Good eye; congratulations on a nice buy! IP: Logged |
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nautilusjv Posts: 253 |
posted 09-28-2011 06:27 AM
Thank you Blakstone that is exciting news. Interesting about the initial stamped on the back as the piece also has a monogram on the stem. Thanks again for sharing your expertise! Kelly IP: Logged |
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