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I have this black velvet purse and I have looked everywhere to find markings similar to what's on it. It's marked in 4 different places 1.On the back, 2.On the handle, 3.Inside the handle and 4.Inside the purse on a flap that separates the sections. Any help would be appreciated. I have lots of pictures so if these aren't good enough please I'll post more.

Here is a pic of the front of the purse


Now for the markings

1.The back of the purse


Markings on the back of the purse


2.The Handle, it has markings on the inside and on the back


Handle markings (inside)


Markings going from top to bottom:

Unidentifiable marking and lion facing the right (inside)


Clear marking of “3 GB” (inside)


3.The back of the of the handle there are also markings


And finally

4.The inside of the purse


The location of the markings as I said are on the metal flap, the interior is a soft leather and at one time was attached but has recently come off. They are kind of hard to see so if you have any trouble seeing them I will try to take more pictures.

Starting from left to right


These are close up views of some of the smaller markings
1. Same “3 GB” marking


2.Same unidentified marking found on the inside of the handle


Well that’s it in a nutshell, I would really appreciate any help out there in understanding exactly where this is from. Also if you are in need of more pictures please let me know, I have lots. Oh and if you want to see closer views of the decorated parts please let me know and I'll post them cause it really is beautiful. Thanks again.
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Hi,

I tend to think it's a Groninger purse.
Not all marks make sense to me, it may be an assembled piece (some old, some not so old).

The lion-walking is the 833/000 mark for silver used between 1814-1953
What you read as the mark 3-above-GB in a square looks more like a 3-above-GR to me and indicates the makers mark of Gebr. Roelfsema who worked in Winseum (Groningen) between 1864-1910.

Remember that was also the era of al ot of pseudomarks, but to be sure you need someone to have a look at it.

Where around do you live?
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I did some digging and found out the following:
The Gebr. Roelsema firm was famous for his fakes and fake silvermarks.
They specialized in birthspoons, but apparently did purses aswell.

One of the marks (the A above an 8) is a documentated pseudo mark for the Groninger dateletter of 1774/1775 (no. 15 "valse zilvermerken in Nederland" - K.A.Citroen)
The 2 above a Z is the false dateletter of 1653-54 (no. 392).
The "malthezer cross" with the little crown is a fake makersmark (no. 463).

Treasure this item, good pseudo marks are hard to find and they are collected.

p.s.: could you clean the mark next to the lion .. that might be a dateletter or an essay office mark.
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sure, I'll try cleaning it some and posting new pics this week. Thank you so much for your help and all the research that you've done. I was going nowhere trying to figure it out on my own. Again thank you thank you!!
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Marks are indeed fake one's. This is typically a late-19th Century purse. These kinds of marks we also call Pseudo-marks, wich mean they are fake. One of the marks is meant to be the citymark of Groningen.
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