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Hello silver friends,
can someone help me idetify the master mark?






Many Thanks!
Best regards,
Dimitri

Your 800 standard silver spoons were made in Paris by Lambert and the widow (veuve) of Jozan. Their symbol was two crossed oars (deux rames en croix). No first names are given in the registry. They made flatware and cutlery at 83 rue Vielle-du-Temple. This mark was registered on 6 March 1849. No end date is given.

These appear to be sugar or jam spoons, made to stand upright around a sugar or jam bowl.

See Arminjon, V. II, no. 03168, p. 290

Hope this helps.

P.S. Here is a bit more info: Lambert & Widow Jozan were the successors of Lambert & Roussel (still no first names) working at the same Paris address - 83 rue Vieille-di-Temple. Lambert and Roussel first registered their mark on 29 March 1847, 2 years prior to Lambert & Widow Jozan. Their symbol was the same - two crossed oars.

See Arminjon, V.II, no. 03120, p.286.

The patriarch and husband of the widow Jozan was:

François Pamphile Jozan
Born: 31 May 1786, Paris, son of Jean François Jozan & Genevieve Catherine Coltel
Married: 16 Feb 1815, Maucourt-sur-Orne, Meuse, to Marie Anne Rittiez (1792-1861), daughter of Jean-Baptiste Rittiez & Agnes Barat
Died: 23 Feb 1846, Paris, 2nd arrondissement.

His mark was entered on 8 Jan 1836, and cancelled on 27 Mar 1847, a year after his death. He was succeeded by his sons-in-law, François Lambert & Louis François Eugène Doutre Roussel:

François Lambert
Born: ca. 1816
Married: ca. 1847, to Agnès Hermance Jozan (1815-1880), daughter of François Pamphile Jozan & Marie Anne Rittiez
Died: Between 1880 and 1882

Louis François Eugène Doutre Roussel
Born: 9 Feb 1824, Le Puy en Velay, Haute Loire, son of Jean François Louis Doutre Roussel (1782-1835) & Anne Marie Fançoise Richond (1791-1873)
Married: 14 Jan 1847, Paris, 7th arrondissement, to Agnès Mathilde Jozan (1828-1906), daughter of François Pamphile Jozan & Marie Anne Rittiez
Died: 2 Aug 1884, Triel-sur-Seine, Yvelines

Eugène Doutre Roussel left Lambert & Roussel to form the famous firm of Doutre Roussel in 1849, which came under the direction of his son, Claude Louis Doutre Roussel (1855-1926) in 1877. Eugène Doutre Roussel served as mayor of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris from Nov 1880 until his death in 1884.

After the departure of Doutre Roussel, the firm of Lambert & Roussel became Lambert & Veuve Jozan: François Jozan and his mother-in-law Marie Anne Rittiez-Jozan. She died on 19 May 1861, but (as noted) there is no record that her mark with Lambert was cancelled at the time. Her daughter (and Lambert’s wife) Agnès Hermance Jozan-Lambert died on 27 May 1880, and her death record calls her an "orfèvre" [gold/silversmith], so she presumably retained at least part of her mother's interest in the firm. I cannot find a record of Lambert’s death, but it was certainly after his wife's death (on which record he is noted as her widower) and before 9 Sep 1882 when his son Antoine Léon Lambert married and both his parents are recorded as deceased; very probably it was before 16 May 1881, when that same son Antoine Léon Lambert entered his own mark. He was, in turn, succeeded by his widow Léonie Perrier-Lambert in 1904.

Dear Jay T and blakstone, thank you very much for your detailed information.

Best wishes,
Dimitry