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Salt cellar
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:52 am
by meyrink
Have a beautiful autumn day!
Can someone please help me with the markings on this salt cellar?
Thank you
Re: Salt cellar
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:59 am
by oel
Hi, it is raining over here. Strasbourg France, 13 under crown; designation of the Straßburg 13-lot silver work around 1750 with variants up to the revolution. Crowned K year letter Straßburg for 1761
Source; Marc Rosenberg Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen IV. Band/Ausland page 317-318.
Peter.
Re: Salt cellar
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:08 am
by JayT
Hello
It is raining where I am also.
To add to oel’s excellent information, the maker of your salt cellar is Johann Jacob Ullmann, using a mark he registered in 1749. His later mark was registered in 1763.
Regards
See Deux Siècles d’Orfèvrerie à Strasbourg. Illkirch, Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg, 2004. p. 295.
P.S. Suggest moving this post to the France forum.
Re: Salt cellar
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:44 am
by meyrink
Hi and thank you both guys.
Re: Salt cellar
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 9:58 am
by JayT
You're welcome.