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Reference last year’s post by Jannie: viewtopic.php?p=210343&hilit=hunnius#p210343

Sample large table/serving spoon:














Is this another version of his marks, or a different silversmith? TIA (Could be a problem with images not showing in the preview..will try again if that’s the case.)

Again:

Not sure what’s going haywire but images are posting too small or not at all. Might be a problem over at postimages. Sorry.

Now it works..go figure!

Yes, it is Bernhardt Friedrich Wilhelm Hunnius from Hildesheim.

Many Thanks!

... just for clarification: Scheffler documents various ways of writing HUNNIUS, so there ist no doubt that this is the very same Hunnius. Regards Bahner

Thanks for that extra, Bahner? So why is there almost nothing surfacing related to this long lived master, at least not on this end of the electro-planet? Shouldn’t more of his work be turning up?

Hello, considering the meltdowns of silver in Germany druring the past 220 years (Napoleonic Wars, WW I, WW II, 1970ies, 2011, past six months) I am astonished that old small silver objects of German origin exist today. Regards Bahner

And yet an entire Roman silver hoard survived for centuries buried in this location. Considering what happened there in 1945, it’s probably a good thing that some objects left to be re-discovered later.