small cup marked 950 and unknown Makers mark

[espear]

I have a cup/bowl weighting 51 grams and measures 72 cm across and 31 cm high. The bowl has a Viking ship in the center with 6 flowers around the sides. The makers mark is a B above an M or my thoughts a cardinals hat (three sided). Any help with identifying the maker would help. My thoughts are this may be a copy of an old Viking bowl.
Thanks
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[dragonflywink]

Hi ~ welcome to the forums. The ship motif on your bowl would be Greek rather than Scandinavian - the decoration and the .950 fineness are typical, have seen the mark before, but do not know the maker...

~Cheryl

[davidross]

There was lengthy discussion of this same conjoined B M mark in two earlier threads, which can be seen here:

http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... 126#p74560

As Cheryl has already written, the mark is certainly Greek, but the maker remains a mystery for now.

Regards,

David R

[espear]

Thanks Cheryl and David.

I will work to get detail pictures of the symbols around the rim. It may help in solving this.

Regards,

Eric

[espear]

Here are four pictures of the symbols on the rim.

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Regards,

Eric