Hello,
I have a Dutch spoon but I can not figure out all the hallmarks.
Can somebody read these hallmarks?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCC8kf ... Z2ABb/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCC8kf ... Z2ABb/view
Many thanks!
Dutch Spoon 18e century
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
I have embedded the images.
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
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Silver spoon Dutch 18th century - unclear hallmarks
Hello,
I have a dutch spoon with hallmarks that I can not read.
I hope somebody can help me learn more about this spoon.
Many thanks! Cheers
I have a dutch spoon with hallmarks that I can not read.
I hope somebody can help me learn more about this spoon.
Many thanks! Cheers
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
Hi,
Looking at the marks, I believe, going by the large crown, the type of shield, it could be a town mark or year letter (1761?).
Maker's mark a tree(?) or other way round NW(?) under ? and bellow the Holland duty free mark of 1807. The hatchet is a later duty mark used 1853-1927
Lion rampant under crown Belgian or Dutch?
I am not sure. The search goes on.
Peter.
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
Thank you Peter for your information. I have another detail photo from a onther angle
Like you I think the top one is the Citymark, looks like SI in a crowned shield.
And I allso think the bottom one is the Makersmark, from this angle my first impression is NW with a angel or something beneath.
I can not link the Marks to a City or a Silversmith.. may be you can tell me more from this image?
Kind regards!
Like you I think the top one is the Citymark, looks like SI in a crowned shield.
And I allso think the bottom one is the Makersmark, from this angle my first impression is NW with a angel or something beneath.
I can not link the Marks to a City or a Silversmith.. may be you can tell me more from this image?
Kind regards!
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
Finally I think we know where we looking at. My first impression turned out to be correct the spoon is Belgian.
Subject to reservation.
Probably not a lion under a crown but under a fire striker for the Belgian city of Namur/Namen; The ancestral hallmark, given in 1440 by Philippe the Good, shows the Namur Lion beneath a Burgundian Fire striker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_striker
The year letter crowned for Namur 1761
The maker's mark
NW above a symbol (a leaf?): A variant of the master mark of Nicolas Joseph Wodon, of which three variants are already known, or the maker's mark of another master?
Gratitude; Dr. Wim Nys | Hoofd Collectie en onderzoek DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds
Source: Orfèvres Namurois van G. Poskin & Ph. Stokart (Namen, 1982)
Zilver in België Piet Baudouin, Pierre Colman en Dorsan Goethals.
Peter.
Subject to reservation.
Probably not a lion under a crown but under a fire striker for the Belgian city of Namur/Namen; The ancestral hallmark, given in 1440 by Philippe the Good, shows the Namur Lion beneath a Burgundian Fire striker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_striker
The year letter crowned for Namur 1761
The maker's mark
NW above a symbol (a leaf?): A variant of the master mark of Nicolas Joseph Wodon, of which three variants are already known, or the maker's mark of another master?
Gratitude; Dr. Wim Nys | Hoofd Collectie en onderzoek DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds
Source: Orfèvres Namurois van G. Poskin & Ph. Stokart (Namen, 1982)
Zilver in België Piet Baudouin, Pierre Colman en Dorsan Goethals.
Peter.
Re: Dutch Spoon 18e century
Thank you very much Peter for your help.
I was still searching in Dutch hallmark books!
That is really impressive work thanks again!
I was still searching in Dutch hallmark books!
That is really impressive work thanks again!