I was asked by private mail if I knew what these hallmarks stood for on a pair of silver candlesticks. The town mark was unclear and unknown to them. Maybe Belgian? Thanks to the work of Theo Hecker Silberpunze, we were able to find the answer.
N.B. One of a pair.
The candlesticks are "German", from Breslau. At the time Breslau belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, later part of the German Empire.
The town mark of Wrocław (Breslau)shows the severed head of John the Baptist, the city's patron saint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_a ... oc%C5%82aw
The letter L of the assay master was used around 1790 to probably circa 1799. The master mark DGR in leaf-shaped shield was used by; David Gottlieb Raudner, active in Breslau from 1793, died in 1845. Other marks used by David Gottlieb Raudner; DGR in rectangle, Raudner in rectangle
History of Wrocław/Breslau
During the atrocities of World War II, 90 percent of Breslau's industry and 70 percent of its residential area were heavily damaged or entirely destroyed. Following the Allied victory in 1945, with the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. More than 600,000 inhabitants—almost all of them ethnic Germans—were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of pre-war Poland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wroc%C5%82aw
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Pair of silver candlesticks Breslau/ Wrocław
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