05-13-2018 09:13 PM
I usually come on here to help out with silver hallmarks but this one has be stumped. I have this covered sugar bowl listed as English but I'm pretty sure it is not. Could be Polish but I dont believe the #8 exists on Polish marks. Anybody know what it is? Thanks
05-13-2018 09:28 PM
05-14-2018 12:13 AM
Certainly not English.
05-17-2018 11:27 AM
Thought it could be English at first then after getting a bid figured no way. Looks like I won't be getting an answer on this one.
05-19-2018 10:17 PM
05-20-2018 05:10 AM
According to this website it’s certainly Polish:
http://www.modernsilver.com/basichallmarks.htm
and the 8 represents an ‘800’ silver content in degrees of thousandths. If there were two numbers it would apparently indicate it being Russian, but with just the one number it’s of European, Polish origin.
05-20-2018 06:21 AM - edited 05-20-2018 06:24 AM
@minarima1 wrote:According to this website it’s certainly Polish:
http://www.modernsilver.com/basichallmarks.htm
and the 8 represents an ‘800’ silver content in degrees of thousandths. If there were two numbers it would apparently indicate it being Russian, but with just the one number it’s of European, Polish origin.
I don't think that's correct. The image on that site labelled "Polish marks for 800 silver (used after 1963)" shows a number 3 beside the head, not an 8. See here for confirmation:
http://www.chineseargent.com/home/poland-silver-hallmark
http://www.925-1000.com/Fpoland_marks_1.html
Could the OP's hallmark also be a "3"? But then there is an additional problem, which is the fact that the woman's head on the Polish hallmarks I can find looks quite different, in detail, from the OP's.