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Hi all,

Long time lurker - enjoyed reading and sleuthing on some of the more obscure marks that pop up.

I have one here that I'm partially stumped on - a pair of Dutch miniature silver candlesticks. Stylistically they are early 18th century, but the marks are partial and not entirely legible. They came with a group of 17th and 18th C. miniature silver that my family inherited, including some small Jan Bonket pieces. That said...wondered if anybody here knows what these marks are? The three chevron like mark looks a bit like an early Amsterdam mark from Tardy, but I couldn't identify with any confidence the lower mark to clear it up....




Many thanks for any suggestions!!

(and of course, by chevron, I don't mean chevron at all - the three dots almost resemble the andreas crosses, rubbed, but they almost also resemble part of a gouda city mark? Anyhow, got stuck with this one!)

Hi welcome to the forum,

Jan Bonket, productive toy maker with two known makers’ Marks being; I.B and I:B
Special note; I.B also encountered as a falsification.


Your miniature candlesticks are most probably made in Amsterdam, although you could debate the city mark, I believe we are looking at the remains of a badly struck 2nd standard dual Amsterdam city mark with date letter, the miniature hardly has enough free space to add a decent hallmark or makers’ mark.
I believe we are looking at the base of the maker’s mark of; Daniel van Strant, 1742-1756, specialized in small silver objects; toymaker and member of a family of toy-makers like his brothers Frederik I and Willem van Strant and his nephew Frederik II






Oel.