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Cross authentic?
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:23 pm
by solo
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 4:18 am
by Dad
solo wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:23 pm
Good day
Please tell me if the cross of the city of Polotsk
is authentic?
Not. It's fantasy pampering
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 10:45 am
by solo
Thank you.
I'm giving you a photo of Polotsk, maybe you don't have a photo of such stamps in your collection.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 3:07 am
by Mart
Hello! The hallmarks on the cross are certainly fake.
P.S.: There has never been an assay office in the city of Polotsk.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:49 am
by Qrt.S
@Solo
Like Mart says... not Polotzk. The town punch is Mogilev (or Vitebsk?). The assayer is BP 1821-? Unfortunately he is unknown to name to me, If someone knows his name (and location), please tell it, thank you. Anyway, what caught my eyes is that there is no maker's mark! That would indicate import, but....? If there, however, is a maker's mark, please Solo show it too thank you.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:01 am
by Mart
The city of Vitebsk. Perhaps we can see a part of the erased silversmith's nameplate on the left side of the second piece.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:15 am
by Qrt.S
Thanks Mart, lets wait and see.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:57 pm
by solo
Good afternoon, unfortunately I don't have any additional photos.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 10:33 am
by Dad
Qrt.S wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:49 am
Unfortunately he is unknown to name to me, If someone knows his name (and location),
please tell it, thank you.
Your'r wellcome. John : The Assay Master of the Vitebsk Assay Office, the Jew Wulf Rosett, was appointed after training at the Moscow Assay Office in 1819. The first Vitebsk Assay Office hallmarks were made at the St. Petersburg Mint for 1820.
Re: Cross authentic?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 12:41 pm
by Qrt.S
Thank you Dad I appreciate that you told me.