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HI ALL

I have this interesting silver mounted wick lamp & I would greatly appreciate any help to identify the hallmarks.

it has 2 hallmarks, first is a oval with the letters A B, the 2nd has numbers 1 5 to the left 13 in center & 67? at right.

The top is brass & the base is weighted. About 8 inches tall.

THANK YOU

Hi,

If you clean the hallmark, you will be able to see the assay date 1867(?), after go to:
http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks.html
Austria-Hungary hallmarks.
Hopefuly another could tell more about the maker's mark AB.

Oel.

Thanks for your super quick response.

I cleaned the hallmark as best as possible, now i see there is a little letter at the top but it's too unclear to identify. so it seems this was assayed in 1857 correct?

Who might the A. B. maker be?

Hello!
The maker is unknown for me, but if I see right, and a D is above the hallmark, that's from Lemberg. (today Lviv in Ukraine) And Yes, 1857 is the year of assaying.
Regards!
Krisztián

Krisztián told everything about marks - I doubt we will ever know the maker from Lemberg. Just make sure it`s D and not B
Btw. interesting lamp; have never seen anything like it. Many bases of Austrian Empire ``Aufsatzschalen`` are found with original glass missing and they are often used to create completely different items. How is glass reservoir fixed to silver base? Is glass wheel cut or pressed?

For what it's worth, the 1862 Adressbuch der Kaufleute, Fabrikanten und Gewerbsleute von Ungarn, Siebenbürgen, Kroatien, Slawonien, Galizien, Dalmatien lists a goldsmith "A. Bertolino" in Lemberg. The Austrian Central Police Blotter for 1858 gives his full name as Alexander Bertolino, reporting the theft of a diamond brooch on 26 May of that year.

AG2012 wrote:Krisztián told everything about marks - I doubt we will ever know the maker from Lemberg. Just make sure it`s D and not B
Btw. interesting lamp; have never seen anything like it. Many bases of Austrian Empire ``Aufsatzschalen`` are found with original glass missing and they are often used to create completely different items. How is glass reservoir fixed to silver base? Is glass wheel cut or pressed?

The glass looks exactly how it is in the picture, it seems to go into the base & is probably held in place by the filling material in the base.

I don't know how to tell if the glass is wheel cut or pressed.

THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THEIR KIND INPUT.