Please help me identify the silversmith on this French teapot.Teapot is .950 silver with Minerva mark.
Silversmith Initials appear to be G.T. Symbol looks like a bee or fly, and a cornucopia or horn below? Thank you!
Please help identify French silversmith, Silver Teapot
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Re: Please help identify French silversmith, Silver Teapot
Hello,
GT. A cornucopia and a bee (Une corne d'abondance et une abeille)
Hallmark of Grégoire Thurot. Orfèvrerie : la grosserie, 22 cour de Harlay, Paris.
Mark entered : 15 January 1833.
Mark cancelled : 29 March 1852.
N° de garantie : 3184
N° de préfecture : 3329
Documentation : Archives de la Garantie, Paris : Address mark entered N° 30, Archives de la Garantie, Paris : registre d'insculpation 1820 till 1840.
GT. A cornucopia and a bee (Une corne d'abondance et une abeille)
Hallmark of Grégoire Thurot. Orfèvrerie : la grosserie, 22 cour de Harlay, Paris.
Mark entered : 15 January 1833.
Mark cancelled : 29 March 1852.
N° de garantie : 3184
N° de préfecture : 3329
Documentation : Archives de la Garantie, Paris : Address mark entered N° 30, Archives de la Garantie, Paris : registre d'insculpation 1820 till 1840.
Re: Please help identify French silversmith, Silver Teapot
Hello,
GT. A cornucopia and a bee (Une corne d'abondance et une abeille)
Hallmark of Grégoire Thurot. Orfèvrerie : la grosserie, 22 cour de Harlay, Paris.
Mark entered : 15 January 1833.
Mark cancelled : 29 March 1852.
N° de garantie : 3184
N° de préfecture : 3329
Documentation : Archives de la Garantie, Paris : Address mark entered N° 30, Archives de la Garantie, Paris : registre d'insculpation 1820 till 1840.
GT. A cornucopia and a bee (Une corne d'abondance et une abeille)
Hallmark of Grégoire Thurot. Orfèvrerie : la grosserie, 22 cour de Harlay, Paris.
Mark entered : 15 January 1833.
Mark cancelled : 29 March 1852.
N° de garantie : 3184
N° de préfecture : 3329
Documentation : Archives de la Garantie, Paris : Address mark entered N° 30, Archives de la Garantie, Paris : registre d'insculpation 1820 till 1840.
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Re: Please help identify French silversmith, Silver Teapot
Zilver2
Thank you so much for helping me! :-)
Thank you so much for helping me! :-)
Re: Please help identify French silversmith, Silver Teapot
The death record of a Gregoire Martial Gabriel Thurot on 14 Nov 1853 in Paris, 8th arrondissement may be relevant. His estate was left to his sisters and nieces (some of whom were in London), so it seems likely that he did not marry or have children.