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Hi all.

This is a cute little silver object I have had for some time, but I have never been able to identify the maker or country of origin.
It is a stork pulling a cart/tumbril with four babies (although, the style of the figures makes them look like young children). Anyway, I have hawked it around many silver dealers and they all were only sure of two things - it is silver and it is not British.
I have three photos, one shows two marks to the back of the little cart and the other two show a very small mark punched into the bar that the stork pulls the cart with.

As far as I can make out, the marks on the back are IR in round/ovaloid stamp and AI or N in another round/ovaloid stamp.
The small mark on the thin bar looks like AI or an A with a diagonal letter like I as the main letters with a little B to the top left.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Stewart

Hello

Mark on thills is Austrian Import Mark (1891-1901).

In Austria was in that time a market - and own production of course - for this kind of couriosity.

Origin: Holland or Germany (Hanau) ?

Kind regards silverport

Silverport

Thank you very much for the information. I am amazed, as you have given me an answer that many silver dealers could not.
I now have an avenue to investigate down.

Thanks again and regards.

Stewart

Hi Stewart


Miniature Stork pulling a wagon with four baby’s, which look like small adolescence.
Hallmarks: Austrian import mark for silver used as of 1872 till 1902, see Marc Rosenberg volume IV page 436, Lf Nr. 7892.
Marks on the back of the wagon are not Dutch but German: IR, for the maker, and N, for possibly Nürnberg. There are various entries with the initials IR. One is Jeremias Rauwolff registered as of 1602 and a couple more, later date, but unknown.
N.B I am not an expert. Nürnberg masters have been greatly copied; however truth and beauty are in the mind and eye of the beholder.
Enjoy your baby’s.

Regards,

Oel