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unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:55 am
by rusei
Re: unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:56 pm
by Theoderich
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/TE ... weizPseudo(Luzern" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)Bossard.JPG
Luzern (Swiss)
Bossard
ca.1900
Re: unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:13 pm
by Joerg
Dear Rusei
Atelier Bossard, founded by Johann Balthasar Bossardafter 1830. His son Karl Silvan Bossard (1846 - 1914), in business from 1869 to 1901 raised the atelier to an international recognized manufacturer of silver items. He won with his products a gold medal on the world exhibitions in Paris in 1889 and 1900. The atelier was devoted to historicism, producing items of high quality.
Unfortunatel, the missed often to mark their products as copies of older (16th to 18th century guildt silver) items. The atelier had a bad reputation for selling new items as genuine antiques, or at least selling their (high quality) copies without proper marking as copies.
Congratulation to your piece.
Jörg
Re: unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:40 am
by Joerg
The HP mark in the middle resembles the mark of Hans Peter Oeri from Zürich. Born 1637, master 1672, died 1692. So Bossard imitated marks of earlier periods.
Regards
Jörg
Re: unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 9:45 am
by rusei
Thank you very much!
What Silver is it ?
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Re: unknown mark - Hanau??
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:05 pm
by Joerg
Dear Rusei
most probably 800 silver
Regards
Jörg
