Looking for help on Vienna maker id

[SteveDWollongong]

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. I found this nice little snuff box online, sold by a third party seller who claimed to specialise in antiques and collectables. Clearly silver is not an area of expertise as this guilloche enamel box was listed as a base metal in an obscure category...enough said. The enamel work has no chips, even on the base which is remarkable. I suspect it has been in a drawer or cupboard for decades as the silver was so black I couldn't see any of the engraving when it arrived.

So, it wears the Austrian official mark for 900 fineness 1872 - 1922 letter A for Vienna. I'm hoping one of you guys knows the maker AJ in an oval.

I have to say that these are the tiniest marks I've ever come across and I did have difficulty even through the loupe. There is another mark which I assume to be a retailers mark which looks like YZN but it could just be a model/batch internal id number of some kind. The middle letter Z is either badly struck or something slightly different as there is a leading vertical line down its front. Any way I threw it out there in the off chance someone may have come across it before.

As always, any help will be greatly appreciated.

Steve

Box top:





Front and side:





Interior:





Maker and Dianakopf:





Cropped and rotated Dianakopf:





Retailer YZN:

[Traintime]

A search of "Austrian AJ" yields notations of Adolf Jonas Vienna (oval mark antique letters AJ). Seem possible? : http://925-1000.com/forum/search.php?ke ... dolf+jonas

[SteveDWollongong]

Yes Adolf Jonas is a definite possibility but as the image of his unregistered mark is no longer available and the registered mark differs by description (antique letters whereas as mine are the complete opposite) I will wait and see if possibly Kristian or one of the others with expertise in this area are able to provide more info.

Cheers,
Steve

[SteveDWollongong]

Apologies to Krisztián as I incorrectly spelled his name above.

cheers,
Steve

[huszas76]

The most possibly maker is Adolf Jonas.
An other (lesser) possibility is Anton Jacoby!
BEst regards!
Krisztián

[Traintime]

Images of the "unregistered" or retailer mark are restored and seem to be from the ladle query of May 2013. It is a straight line name mark. If anyone has an image of the known registered mark, please post it for reference useage.

[Aguest]

The middle letter is very strange, it could be a stylized "ampersand" symbol (the & symbol) so you could be searching for two initials with an "and" in the middle, like a partnership of some sort, that might be a possibility___

A great find indeed, as many enamel boxes have large chips or cracks which detracts from the overall aesthetics, this one has survived intact___