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Hi Everybody,

Would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me identify the silversmith of these candles.

http://s1141.photobucket.com/albums/n599/robinhk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

there should be 3 pictures here.

Thank you

Hi -
welcome to the board. Please embed your photos in the future into the text, not everybody want to open unknown links!
Please be sure your photos are not blurry - otherwise the answers you get are blurry too!

Your candlesticks are typical Jewish sabbath candlesticks, mostly manufactured and sold in Poland. Even today :-(
The marks: Kokoshnik in use 1899-1908, assaymaster AB (not clear, just an asumption) Aleksandr Kazimirowitsch Vyrschkovski/ Warzaw
The maker´s mark:



Translated to Latin letters: MSCHKARLAU (МШКАРЛАЧЪ)

In Warzaw existed a silversmith MOSZEK CHARLAP 1897-1915, his marks in Cyrillic: М.ШАРЛАП or MX

The marks are wrong (Kokoshnik "double stamp"), the name is wrong, the quality is wrong
Conclusion: contemporary lookalike production = fake

Regards
Postnikov

Hello, Postnikov,
i have one question to You. You wrote, this are typical Jewish sabbath candlesticks. This is very interesting information to me. Do You mean, also my piece is? I thing, it has very similar design, also Warszawian, something older (~1840). Or are there some markants, typical for Jewish sabbath candlesticks, thats are in my piece missing? Sorry for my primitive question, but i am not familiar with Jewish culture.
My piece: http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22236" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thank You very much.
M.

Hi, Postnikov. Hy, all.

May I tell to correct?

I see the maker´s mark as “ Б. Шкарлатъ” (B. Szkarlat). “He was probably related to and the successor of Szmul Szkarlat, a noted Warsaw silversmith and maker of Judaica working in the second half of the 19th century.” (from Silvercollection, see May 2009 Newsletter). Assaymaster AP (Aleksandr Vasilievich Romanov).
But I don’t like this "double stamp", too.

Best Reg..

Hi all,

Thank you for your replies and sorry about the pictures - I don't know how to embed them. I'm confused about postnikov's reply and think Dad my be right. It makes sense that they are Sabbath candlesticks. They were given to my mother by my aunt who, even though she was not religious, her parents probably were. As to them being contemporary reproductions, my aunt is in her nineties and these belonged to her mother. My mom remembered them always being in the family home since the 1950's. It's hard to see in the picture but the first letter does look like Dad describes. What do you mean by the double stamp though?

Thanks,
Robin

Hi robinhk -
I only have to guess what marks are on your object! The photos are not the best - please try again - the candlesticks are in your posession since the 1950´s, no?
Take a loupe and look at the Kokoshnik mark - it is double/over stamped - only seen on fakes - sorry. I always hear the storys: "...since 100 years in our family..." and you do not know that they are sabbath candle sticks?
Here some photos of a sabbath candle stick like yours, silver content 12 Loth (750/1000):







some from my collection




And the proof that they are used on sabbath



Hi Dad -
I enlarged the given photo and read different letters:



The assayer I also can not read clear, it is either АР (A. Romanov 1899 -April 1904) or AB (A. Wyrzykov April 1904-1908)
If it is B. Szkarlat, I miss his trade mark the "fish"

Regards
Postnikov

Hi Dad -

the enlarged photo with the letter Ъ at the end:



and the photo you mentioned:



One of the many Polish fakes!

Regards
Postnikov

Postnikov wrote:

If it is B. Szkarlat, I miss his trade mark the "fish"

Regards
Postnikov

I think "trade mark the "fish"" - Szekman, Izrael 1895-1915. Warszawa.

Dad wrote:

Postnikov wrote:

If it is B. Szkarlat, I miss his trade mark the "fish"

Regards
Postnikov

I think "trade mark the "fish"" - Szekman, Izrael 1895-1915. Warszawa.

Szkarlat, B. 2nd half, 19th C. Marks: Б.ШКАРЛАТЪ; also, БШ (both Cyrillic)

Hi Dad -
trade mark of I.Szegman is "arrow".

Regards
Postnikov

Mind my saying but also in my records Izrael Szekman's trademark is a fish.

Postnikov,
Sorry if I confused you with my explaination of the candlesticks' origin. They did not belong to me in the 1950's. They belonged to my mother's inlaws from her first marriage which is why I wouldn't know what they used them for. My mother had always admired them so when her former mother in law died in the 1970's they were given to my mother as a gift.


Robin

Hi all -
has anybody an silverobject from I.Szegman with all his marks and the fish trademark?

Regards
Postnikov

Hi robinhk -
please be so kind and post some better photos of the marks (name)!

Regards
Postnikov

Hi all -

Dad and Qrt.s are right!
Trademark of I. Szegman is a fish.



Sorry for this mistake!

Regards
Postnikov

Sorry for the delay in posting more pictures - I am really having a hard time with this - after 100 attempts this is the best I could do.
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n59 ... /mark1.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n59 ... /mark2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't know how else to do it except by link. Sorry

HI robinhk -

clear photos give clear answers!
It is as Dad wrote: B.Szkarlat

The "double stamped" Kokoshnik makes me still suspicious.

Regards
Postnikov

Postnikov (and Dad)

Thanks for your help.

Robin

Double stamped kokoshik mark doesn't necessarily proof it's a fake. These candlesticks are 100% original, the signatures too.