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Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:05 am
by Kirils
Hello. Does anyone know who is this maker? JD with a fork. Thank you in advance!
Re: Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:29 pm
by JayT
Hello
Your vermeil sugar nips are made of 800 standard silver as shown by the Minerva head in a barrel-shaped reserve.
The maker is Jean Devaux, maker of small wares in Paris, working at several addresses: 47 rue Ste-Avoye, 35 rue du Temple, and 6 rue Portefoin, using the same mark at all 3 addresses. He first registered 22 February 1838, erased 12 April 1851. His symbol was a table fork (une fourchette de table).
See Arminjon, v. I, no. 0711, p. 188.
Regards
Re: Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:18 pm
by blakstone
Jean Simon Deveaux
Born: 2 May 1815, Paris, son of Jean Martin Deveaux & Marie Pierrette Hugonnet, dite Banquier
Married: 10 Mar 1842, Paris, to Rosalie Jeanne Boutin (ca. 1821-1882)
Died: 20 Sep 1866, Paris, 3e arr.
Deveaux (note the spelling as it appears on all civil records I have found for him) registered the same mark again on 19 Apr 1851 at the rue Portefoin address; there is no cancellation date for this final mark, but he is last listed in the Paris directory of 1862.
Re: Unknown JD mark on silver sugar tongs
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:32 am
by Kirils
blakstone wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:18 pm
Jean Simon Deveaux
Born: 2 May 1815, Paris, son of Jean Martin Deveaux & Marie Pierrette Hugonnet, dite Banquier
Married: 10 Mar 1842, Paris, to Rosalie Jeanne Boutin (ca. 1821-1882)
Died: 20 Sep 1866, Paris, 3e arr.
Deveaux (note the spelling as it appears on all civil records I have found for him) registered the same mark again on 19 Apr 1851 at the rue Portefoin address; there is no cancellation date for this final mark, but he is last listed in the Paris directory of 1862.
JayT wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:29 pm
Hello
Your vermeil sugar nips are made of 800 standard silver as shown by the Minerva head in a barrel-shaped reserve.
The maker is Jean Devaux, maker of small wares in Paris, working at several addresses: 47 rue Ste-Avoye, 35 rue du Temple, and 6 rue Portefoin, using the same mark at all 3 addresses. He first registered 22 February 1838, erased 12 April 1851. His symbol was a table fork (une fourchette de table).
See Arminjon, v. I, no. 0711, p. 188.
Regards
Thank you!