Swedish cuff bracelet - Maritschnig ?

[biscuit]

I hope I'm not going to wear out my warm welcome here, but after getting such great information from my "Scottish mourning bracelet" post (said bracelet turning out to probably be Austrian rather than Scottish) I'm inspired to ask about another bracelet I've had hanging about and can't trace.

It has quite clear marks showing it was made in Stockholm: the date stamp appears to be Y9, and the maker's mark is "ICO". However, I haven't found anything to indicate who ICO is/was, and "Maritschnig" turns up nothing either.









The date mark is slightly unclear: it could be either Y8 or Y9, but judging by the style the I think 1973 date is more likely. SWEDEN MARITSCHNIG is also impressed on the back of both sides of the clasp.

Does anyone know anything about "Maritschnig" (which is a German name, I would think) or "ICO"? Years ago I posted the same question to modernsilver and was told ICO might represent "Galerie 22" in Stockholm, but I never was able to learn more about them.

Many thanks for any information (again)!

[JAKJO]

Hi bisquit,

I can confirm that ICO represented Galerie 22/Galleri 22:an AB in Stockholm owned by Isaac Cohen (ICO) and a searching in the Swedish assay office SWEDAC's registers says that the mark ICO was registered in the period 1963--1965 as Galerie 22, 100 01 Stockholm and in the period 1965--2000 as ICO Galleri 22:an AB, Vasagatan 1, 111 20 Stockholm, telephone number 08-11 17 91.

My informant the esteemed contributor Henrik_viii on the Swedish forum Antikprat tells me that...

Isaak Cohen's shop in Hästskopalatset (The Horseshoe Palace) was situated beside the department store Nordiska Kompaniet, NK, Hamngatan, Stockholm and then he moved it to the Sheraton Hotel and later to the Royal Viking Hotel. Isaak passed away and the business was continued by his widow. The shop carried henceforth a wide range of products for tourists and the better gold and silver assortment disappeared.
Henrik_viii remembers the good range of silver jewelry Cohen had at the shop in Hamngatan. Isaak Cohen lived in Täby outside Stockholm.

I lack information about the designer Maritschnig. There is only one Maritschnig, a woman living in Täby (a coincidence?), according to the Swedish telephone directories.

Best regards/JAKJO