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I have a lovely pair of silver vases and have managed to find a small set of marks stamped into the neck that are Egyptian 800 silver assayed in Alexandria 1942.

On the bottom is a Chinese mark ( I think)

Can anyone help trace the Chinese origin of these vases ?

(Inside a vase was a card handwritten as a gift to Mr & Mrs Massey from "The Secretaries of Egypt" Ismalia 1944.)

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It is indeed a Chinese character mark. The characters stand for :

“Shanghai Fang-Jiu-Xia Run-Ji”, and in Chinese “上海 方九霞 潤記 ”


Fang-Jiu-Xia is one of the nine famous silver workshops in Shanghai. The last two characters at the very bottom of the mark is the name of one of its sub-branches, Run-Ji, which probably closed down at around year 1922.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IMAGES OF ITEMS WITH THE FANG JIU XIA OR FANG JIU XIA RUN JI MARKS?
WOULD MUCH APPRECIATE IT IF YES