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hi-
i would love to buy this Russian butter dish but the marks look a bit fuzzy &, from your column, understand that their are a lot of faked stamps.... it is 5.25" tall & 6.25" wide. 863 gm.
thanks!

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Hi dixie1019 -

I posted your photos:





I is a brandnew made fake - using a traditional object.
All the marks are fakes also.

Regards
Goldstein

@dixie1019
If I were you, I wouldn't buy it for any reason but just forget it.
However, to still my curiosity, would you mind tell us what are the Cyrillic initials in the kokoshnik. Your photo is too blurred to tell it.

Hi,
Faked marks for sure as suggested above, and not a dangerous fake,too obvious.
On the other hand,this object is not easy to make and they probably used already existing butter dish to apply faked marks.
If in your hands, have it tested for silver fineness, probably it`s not solid silver at all.
Regards

Hi

Punches looks like original (from this foto). Mikhail Ovchinnikov, St.-Petersburg. 1899-1908.
But. Will better, if you could made new fotos of hallmarks.

Best Reg..

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hey, Trev,

so sorry about the images--- it took me some time to figure it out.

image on the item's maker mark:

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image on maker's mark hallmark site:


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image on hallmark site of eagle:


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koloshnik image on item on left:

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& from internet site :



i am way new to looking at hallmarks but is the telltale sign the fact that the stamp from the internet shows letters that look like little fat/thick sausages, stuffed snuggly into a sausage casing but that the letters on the image for sale are narrow & at uneven heights? also, as a newbie, would guess that the royal eagle image on the item looks as tho it was marinated for a few hours and then baked at 500 C for the day? & is the koloshnik stamp just too imprecise of a face & should it include the number "84?"?? it was just TOO much fun playing hallmark detective... merci beaucoup to "Dad," "AG2012," "Qrt.S," "Goldstein" (& for posting the original photos!), & "dognose"....

Hello again,
I still think the marks are faked.
Uneven and distorted lettering executed by someone who is not familiar with Cyrillic alphabet but was relying only on visual perception.
Caricature of imperial eagle.
Regards

Hi dixie1019 -



You can bet that this firm had sharp punches and knew how to use them. No two tries were necessary to place a punch.....

As already said: a clumsy attempt to "upgrade" an existing (English?) butter dish. By the way- in over 40 years of collecting Russian silver -I never have seen a Russian butter dish!

Regards
Goldstein