Miniature toy punch bowl

[Athos]

Can anyone help me to determinate this miniature punchbowl
Altough it looks like a salt seller, I think it is a miniature punch bowl.
It is only marked with a makers mark.
It stands 4.3 cms high and is 6.5 cms wide and the weight is 69 gr.
It is handmade with a centerpoint in the middle.
To me it looks from Englisch origine.

Thanks
Athos

[agphile]

I don't think it is English. An English maker's mark would normally have two initials and I have not come across just the letter "u".

[Athos]

Thanks Agphile, for your reaction.
I know normal you would have two initials. I thought on some early peaces you sometimes see one initial.
Also because of the shape I thought it could be Englisch and the bright collor looks a very high grate silver i think Britania silver of 958

[JAKJO]

Hi,

My first impression is that it is pewter and casted and when I saw the only mark the "U". I thougth about the German pewterer Johann Ãœbelacker in Ransbach-Baumbach. Who in the beginning of the 20th century began to combine pewter and ceramics and today is well-known for ceramics.

On the ceramics the company used a "Ü". I have neer seen the pewter items.

Zinngiesserei Johann Ãœbelacker (1909 until 1915)
Zinngiesserei & Zierkeramik Ãœbelacker (1915 until 1955)
Übelacker Zierkeramik (Ü-Keramik) (1955 until 1990)

http://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/rh ... h_1/00.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best regards/JAKJO

[Athos]

Thanks Jakjo, for you interessting email, although I also like pewter. this little bowl is real silver from a high alloy and handmade hammerd. The bow's at the upper rim are solderd to the bowl, each bow separatly, and verry well done.
The base also is hammerd and a ring is sollerd to the base also very well done.
Today I read, that early English miniatures often are unmarked or only with the makers mark.
Maby the mark is later, like a duty-mark?