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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 09-20-2006 11:53 AM
Hello all, Here are two dissimilar modernist hors d'eourve or condiment servers by the same maker. They are thin, undecorated on the reverse, and have at least some hand-work. The mark looks familiar to me, but I can't place it. There are rays of the sun at the top, a mark the looks like a combined C and A, or possibly a C and a teepee, with 925 beneath. I was wondering if it were Native American. Does anyone recognize it? Brent IP: Logged |
doc Posts: 728 |
posted 09-20-2006 01:41 PM
I cannot help with maker identification, but the mark looks like an A superimposed over a C to me. IP: Logged |
Silver Lyon Posts: 363 |
posted 09-20-2006 01:52 PM
Look at the Icelandic link so cleverly provided by Blakstone! There is a description of this mark and the maker to whom it belonged. The link is entitled: 'Because you never know . . .' and is to be found in the Continental forum.
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 09-20-2006 10:23 PM
Amazing! Thanks for remembering this; I hadn't. I guess it did come in handy someday! Wonder how some Icelandic silver made it to Indiana. Thanks again! Brent IP: Logged |
Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 09-22-2006 01:21 AM
'Wonder how some Icelandic silver made it to Indiana.' Bad Karma, wink, Dale IP: Logged |
Silver Lyon Posts: 363 |
posted 09-22-2006 04:08 PM
Could some clever person who reads / understands Icelandic please tell us what the link says about this maker and his marks please? IP: Logged |
FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 09-22-2006 06:56 PM
I don't know about clever, but I can make out some of it until someone who really knows Icelandic comes along. Unfortunately it's not too exciting, at least what I can rough out. My apologies for any mistakes; I don't have a good Icelandic dictionary. The heading refers to a few principal silvermarks from Iceland (for a 20th anniversary?); the following text then simply describes the mark (that of Guðlaugs A. Magnússonar, GAM under a rising sun with the standard 925 at the bottom). I believe it then says the mark came into use in 1946, that there was an earlier mark from 1924 of GAM with purity marks, and from 1950 to 1962 the mark of Guðlaugi (ERNA?) with a year mark. The following paragraphs are on the marks of other firms, ending up with ERNA (the website's owner, a jewelry firm dating from 1924); I think the other firms also were merged into ERNA. Here's his biographical information, which seems to get more detailed, from another of their pages; I don't have the energy right now to work through the translation: quote: The gist of it seems to be, he started working in 1924 in gold and silver, relocated to Reykjavik in 1927, began making plated table wares in 1936; the firm incorporated in 1947; today the firm makes souvenirs and jewelry, working in plate, sterling and gold, and about half their production is tableware, with some handwork still being done. IP: Logged |
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