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Thank you all for the great help with this and the recommended literature.
all the best
Bernhard

Thanks Theo for the remark,

could you specify Marx Merzenboch please?
- since a google search shows zero results on this name,
neither on Merzenblöch or Max instead of Marx, etc ...
???

all the best
Bernhard

Than you Maurice for the in-depth remarks. Yes I know what you mean... Aren't there some (or at least one) Hanau makers who also used something similar to the Augsburg mark ? - of course also to produce a wrong impression on the buyers side. But i didn't even think this would be an attempt to copy t...

Thank you Francais,
right, no assay mark.
What does fake mean then - i mean Hanau marks are kind of like a fake as well, right?

thank you
L.

Hello, this is one of three little bowls, apparently for salt and/or spices (?) The marks are (identical on all three) placed on the bottom of the hollow. Could anybody identify these two marks ? No additional ones to find on any of the three bowls. http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii487/Labyrint...

Dear Silverport, thanks a lot, great ... - I found the Bruckmann - eagle in the german hallmark section. Now I still wonder what the E and 905 means ? and why there is a mark from Heilbronn and one by a silversmith in Bogota, Colombia ? Who would have made it and who imported or exported it (or mayb...

Hello Tom,

wow, thank you so much - I would have never found and guessed this.
(and my spanish is rather not existing)
Although my guess was something spanish / latin somehow
but really: I would have had no chance of ever finding out ...

thank you
all the best
Bernhard

Hello, this tea- or coffee pot (27cm high, about 13cm in diameter) is hallmarked on the bottom (see images below). I read: "ARTURO MEDINA.L." in a crest, some more characters may be missing ... Then there is a eagle in a circle with it's head to the left, the letter "E" and "...

Thanks for your help, great ...

Another question to everybody:
Why doesn't a lot of the silver from Hanau show the German cresent moon and crown hallmarks although clearly produced after 1886.
I thought it was (and still is) a law in Germany ?

thank you
Labyrinth

Thanks a lot jackk. That would actually make sense. I have another pot which is by Söhnlein & Söhne, very similar looking, also Hanau and they also used pseudomarks (no cresent moon and crown) but this one I could find and clearly identify in the German makers' marks after 1886 section. What l...

Thank you salmoned ...
I looked it through before my posting and didn't see it,
now I found it immediately (?!)

thanks Labyrinth

http://f.imagehost.org/0645/Pot.jpg Hello, another problem: I would also need help to identify the origin and possibly also the age of this tea or coffe pot. Marks on the bottom: http://f.imagehost.org/0928/Pot_marks.jpg I see a kind of lily on the right, something like a cup with dots around in th...

http://f.imagehost.org/0432/Creamer.jpg Hello, I would need help to identify the origin and possibly also the age of this creamer. Marks on the bottom: http://f.imagehost.org/0743/Creamer_marks.jpg The only thing I can identify is "800", the marks left from the 800 could have been a Germa...

Hello,

I have an update: I'm pretty sure it says "CONRAETZ",
which would be Vienna I guess ?
Anybody any idea about this company, the maker and the time the piece was made ?

thank you
best
Labyrinth

http://b.imagehost.org/0291/Img_w_mark.jpg http://b.imagehost.org/0835/img_top.jpg Hello, I would need help to identify this fruit basket. I have no idea where it comes from and how old it is. Can't read the marks clearly, one looks like a makers mark, the other (first one from the left) could be a...