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tmockait Posts: 963 |
posted 01-03-2005 08:41 PM
  
I got this spoon from Tibilisi, Georgia. Based on the right facing head, I figure it dates from 1899-1908. The cyrillic letters are ÔÄ (FD). It would be great to get even more specific on the ID. Thanks IP: Logged |
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tmockait Posts: 963 |
posted 01-03-2005 08:43 PM
The Cyrillic letters did not come through properly on my last post. Hope you can read them ok. IP: Logged |
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blakstone Posts: 493 |
posted 01-03-2005 11:34 PM
Well, to preface, let me say that I henceforth give up on trying to approximate Cyrillic characters; members will have to do with transliteration & trust, and a good table for the former can be found at:
Technical Services Dept www.colby.edu - Cyrillic Alphabet [link gone from the Internet] Now. It looks to me here that the maker's mark is overstruck by the kokoshnik mark, and that a third initial in the maker's mark has been obliterated. I say this first because none of my records have a maker "FD", and second because it looks very much like a mark with which I am familiar: "FDL", a Muscovite maker of the 1899-1908 period who remains, alas, unidentified. Check and see if you can read the assayer's initials, which should appear in Cyrillic behind the head. (Can't make them out in your photo.) Moscow had only one assay master during the period: Ivan Sergeyevich Lebedkin, whose "IL" mark appears on all Moscow kokoshnik marks 1899-1908. My bet is that they're "IL" for I. Lebdkin, making your spoon from Moscow, 1899-1908, by the unidentified "FDL". It certainly looks like his mark; the right side of the rectangle seems to fall inside the kokoshnik, and I think I can just make out the left side and lower right tip of the final, obliterated "L". Hope this helps! IP: Logged |
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tmockait Posts: 963 |
posted 01-04-2005 03:12 AM
My eyes are not what they used to be and the hallmark is pretty scratched, so I cannot read the letters behind the head. Your assessments seems right on though (as usual!). Through a magnifying glass the foot of the missing L is pretty clear. Thanks IP: Logged |
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