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hidaleeho Posts: 1 |
posted 09-22-2004 01:16 AM
  
I am trying to identify the Age, Maker and Country of Origin of a large Silver Nef (boat). It has two hallmarks and also is marked "800". One hallmark looks like a crown on top of a harp. The other looks kind of like a swan on top of a crest with the letters V S above a H Dan IP: Logged |
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blakstone Posts: 493 |
posted 09-22-2004 04:15 AM
One of the marks you mention – a "swan on top of a crest with the letters V S above a H" is unquestionably that of the manufacturer Vereinigte Silberwarenfabriken of Hanau, Germany (hence VSH), or the Hanau Combined Silverware Factory. The earliest mention of this company is in 1922. It was formed by the merger of Gebrüder Glaser [Glaser Brothers], (founded in 1883 by Hugo & Thomas Glaser and L. Birkner) and Wolf & Knell (founded around 1900). Before and after their union, these firms specialized, as did many Hanau silversmiths, in fanciful antique reproductions. Gebr. Glaser, for instance, showed reproduction table silver in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and a Wolf & Knell reproduction of a kanne by the 17th-century Augsburg goldsmith Johannes Lencker is mentioned in Rosengberg’s “Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen” (v. 3, no. 2479)., as is their extensive pattern book. Presumably the two companies merged sometime between 1903 (when they have separate Directory listings) and 1922 (when they are listed together as VSH). The last mention I can find of them is in a 1926 Goldsmith’s directory, but they may well have survived until World War II. I’d have to see the other mark to say for sure (please post photos if you can), but chances are it is one of the notorious pseudo-marks used by manufacturers in Hanau to make their antique-style wares seem more authentic. These eszatz Hanau pieces frequently do not carry the Reich mark – the well-known German crown and half moon – since they were often exported directly out of Germany. IP: Logged |
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