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spoon with unknown city-mark "G"
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:42 pm
by R ingo
Hello,
Can someone help me with the marks on this spoon? Is the letter "G" a city-mark?
Kind regards,
Ringo
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:32 pm
by dinio
Hi,
According to Tardy p328, letter G in a square with cut corners has been used between 1866 and 1919 in the city of Gmünden, Poland, during the austro-hungarian period.
Hope this helps.
Dinio
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:49 am
by Theoderich
This spoon looks is before 1866
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:31 am
by R ingo
Hallo dinio,
the mark looks indeed like the mark of Gmünden in Tardy, p 328. But I think, theoderichs note is right, that the spoon is older. I think, it is from the first half of the 19. century.
Kind regards, Ringo
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:13 am
by Theoderich
I have no answer - but an other maker
RIETMAN with mirrored N
hope, it helps
it is about from 1800
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:43 am
by blakstone
The "G" here is the city mark of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The maker "SSC" is Silvester Samuel Cunz (1760-1839), and "RIETMANN" is Michael Rietmann (1782-1862).
I would date both spoons around 1820.
Hope this helps!
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:10 am
by Theoderich
Thank You blakstone.
I think I need a lesson about the stil of a spoon -> age and region.
Can anybody do this for this forum?
Supported someone else this proposal?
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:09 pm
by stecci
The attribution of Blackstone is correct.
Style delays, like the spoon in the Swiss province Rietmann are normal.
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:12 am
by R ingo
Hello blakstone,
I thank You very much.
Kind regards, Ringo
