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Recentley came across this piece, think its Imperial Russian, know more about the Russian Revolution than I know about Hallmarks, Have looked at loads of marks but its so confusing.
I can make out the makers mark on this spoon and it's TE, then the essay mark says what looks like H three (HIII) but it's written in cryllic so I have no idea what that means but it is over top of the year 1853. I know what the 84 means but the stags head (town mark?)also thru me for a loop and I have no idea what it means. Can anyone help me ID this please? Thanks in advance!

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Imperial Russian, but not Russian per se. The stag's head was the city mark of Jelgava (German = Mitau), which is now in the independent country of Latvia. The assayer "HIII" is Nikolaus Schultz, who ran the Jelgava office 1851-1854. The maker "TE" is Theodor Eggink, master 1851, died 1866.

Hope this helps!
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Mind my asking again blakstone, but where do you find the information that Nikolai Ivanovich Schulz was assaying in Jelgava 1851-1854. In my books he did work as an assayer but only in Toula 1856-1860. This means that he was according to your source working earlier i Jelgava, which of course is quite possible, but where can I find this information? I would really appreciate if you could tell me that.
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Baltisches Silber by Annelore Leistikow. It's a great reference of makers & marks in Estonia & Latvia.
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Thank you. That's what I thought, but unfortunately that book is rather difficult to find nowadays.

Have a nice day
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