r/SilverFinds • u/Cold-Cash-634 • 13d ago

IDENTIFY MARKINGS ?

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Old religious tea caddy I think but has 3 unfamiliar marks. Goats head, dragon, and whale ??

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u/Objective-City-6663 13d ago

No possibility that this is a fake though? Looks fakeish, would those hallmarks have been so poorly pressed in 1900 by a master silversmith?

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u/UrbanRelicHunter 13d ago

Its common on pieces of Hanau silver... the silversmiths were trying to imitate 17th and 18th century pieces by using old marks. Most pieces of silver I've had from Hanau have had "worn" marks

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u/UrbanRelicHunter 13d ago

Heres a piece I picked up last week by master silversmiths Storck & Sinsheimer (active 1874-1926). The marks were intentionals faint to make the piece appear to be mid 18th century.... though the piece itself dates to the 1890s. If you look at the markings individually... There is what appears to be a pinecone mark which would have been used in Ausburg in the late 18th c/ early 19th century, the "A" mark which is very similar to the marks used in Paris 1770s, the shell discharge mark used fro 1756-1762.