I got it from a flea market in Aarau, Switzerland. Aarau has an eagle in its city coat, but it looks different and in my reference books silver from Aarau always has the letter A as city mark, not an eagle.
Thank you
Jörg
Unknown City and Maker mark on a pre-1800 fork
Unknown City and Maker mark on a pre-1800 fork
Please help me identify the city mark and the maker of this fork. From the style, the marks and the appearance I think it is from between 1750 and 1800.
I got it from a flea market in Aarau, Switzerland. Aarau has an eagle in its city coat, but it looks different and in my reference books silver from Aarau always has the letter A as city mark, not an eagle.
Thank you
Jörg
I got it from a flea market in Aarau, Switzerland. Aarau has an eagle in its city coat, but it looks different and in my reference books silver from Aarau always has the letter A as city mark, not an eagle.
Thank you
Jörg
Re: Unknown City and Maker mark on a pre-1800 fork
Swiss, yes, but not Aarau: it's from Neuchâtel. The maker "C.G/B" is Charles-Louis-Guillaume Bonvêpre (1749-1808), master 1766.
Nice find - I'm very fond of Swiss silver!
Ref: François-Pierre de Vevey, Manuel Des Orfèvres De Suisse Romande (Fribourg: Sotheby's/Office du Livre, 1985), p. 186, maker no. 1252a.
Nice find - I'm very fond of Swiss silver!
Ref: François-Pierre de Vevey, Manuel Des Orfèvres De Suisse Romande (Fribourg: Sotheby's/Office du Livre, 1985), p. 186, maker no. 1252a.
Re: Unknown City and Maker mark on a pre-1800 fork
Thank you, Blackstone, your knowledge on the subject is extraordinary. I only had small hope for solving this mistery.
Also your quotation of your reference is very helpful.
Kind regards
Jörg
Also your quotation of your reference is very helpful.
Kind regards
Jörg
Re: Unknown City and Maker mark on a pre-1800 fork
As an update here the pictures from 2011:
