Silver Candlesticks - What is this Mark?
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:11 pm
I was wondering if someone could help me with the origin of the marks on these candlesticks I picked up this morning.
Here they are, very ornate and repousse in style.
From the feel and they way that these candlesticks polish I am pretty sure they are silver, the mark you see although terribly captured appears to be "DO" (or "GO"), a cursive B, and another mark. I *think* that the B is a date letter while the last mark is an assay mark. The "assay mark" seems to say "R.C." in very small letters on it's top when the mark is flipped upside down. I'm sorry for the picture quality as my camera is very tempermental! I've been looking at the World Marks page literally all day and I can't seem to figure out which country uses these marks, I would be very grateful if any one knew the origin of these candlesticks.
Here they are, very ornate and repousse in style.
From the feel and they way that these candlesticks polish I am pretty sure they are silver, the mark you see although terribly captured appears to be "DO" (or "GO"), a cursive B, and another mark. I *think* that the B is a date letter while the last mark is an assay mark. The "assay mark" seems to say "R.C." in very small letters on it's top when the mark is flipped upside down. I'm sorry for the picture quality as my camera is very tempermental! I've been looking at the World Marks page literally all day and I can't seem to figure out which country uses these marks, I would be very grateful if any one knew the origin of these candlesticks.