Alkmaar

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zilverik
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Alkmaar

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Hi,
This small box (Height 3 cm; Long 3,7 cm; Wide 3,2 cm; Weight 19 gram) has a clear mastermark CD, a dateletter that looks like a C and a townmark that looks like the townmark for Alkmaar, North Holland. The mastermarks for Alkmaar I have acces to don't list a master CD, but if it is Alkmaar, dateletter C could mean 1737. That could make a match with the form of the box.
Maybe it isn't Alkmaar. What else townmark could it be? And who could master CD be?
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Re: Alkmaar

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Hi,

Please embed your images as very few members will click on such links.

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Hi,

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Certainly not Alkmaar nor Dutch. Perhaps German, I believe the German city of Kalkar used this type of "Turm" Tower in the 18th century. Although I might be wrong, I will move you to the German forum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkar

Peter

Source; Helmut Seling, Helga Domdey- Knödler European town marks
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Re: Alkmaar

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Thank you!
Wolfgang Scheffler, Goldschmiede Rheinland-Westfalens 1 (1973), does show the townmark of Kalkar and that, in particular mark 465b, could really be the townmark on the box, however there is no mentioning of a master "CD" in Kalkar. Are there more towns with towers in ther townmark that could be in consideration?
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Your welcome, let us wait for our German contributors to chime in.

Peter.
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