Need help with this Silver Hallmark

[astral276]

And I've just been sent this:



Now I'm confused!

The problem is that they use both lower and upper case letters to mark the assay year. Some letters, particularly when worn, look much the same in upper and lower case, for example c & C, o & O, s & S, v & V, w & W, x & X, z & Z.

You are just unlucky to get one of those.

If they had thought it through they would have skipped certain letters (like they do with car number plates) to avoid confusion.

[cheaver]

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I've just tried to digitally enhance the mark from the pic in your other thread:





Which still looks (to me) to be the slimmer O than the fatter one.

Also, since your grandparents were married in October of 1912 their Silver Wedding Anniversary gift (25 years) was in 1937, not 1938.

I think this compact was most likely to have been a 1st Wedding Anniversary gift in 1913.

Unless you produce a better picture showing a definitive 1938 mark! lol!


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[Anniemcc2]

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Which still looks (to me) to be the slimmer O than the fatter one.

Also, since your grandparents were married in October of 1912 their Silver Wedding Anniversary gift (25 years) was in 1937, not 1938.

I think this compact was most likely to have been a 1st Wedding Anniversary gift in 1913.

Thanks Elizabeth - I've come round to your way of thinking - and many thanks for all your sleuthing.

But will also see if I can get a better photo of the hallmark.

[Anniemcc2]

How are these - taken in daylight:





Looking very much like the 1913 slimmer 0 now, I think, rather than the 1938 O.

[cheaver]

How are these - taken in daylight:
Looking very much like the 1913 slimmer 0 now, I think, rather than the 1938 O.

I've had another go at enhancing.....

note also the bottom shapes of the shield differences....



I still think 1913 but it's your call! lol!


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[Gill]

Please look at the shape.

O is for Oscar as in the alphabet and then look at the numerical keypad 0.

0 is what the image shows - numerical. It does not look like the O as in Oscar alphabetical.

[Anniemcc2]

Please look at the shape.

O is for Oscar as in the alphabet and then look at the numerical keypad 0.

0 is what the image shows - numerical. It does not look like the O as in Oscar alphabetical.

Thanks Gill - that was the conclusion I had come to - at last.

[cheaver]

Thanks Gill - that was the conclusion I had come to - at last.

Given the choices for pre-1974 Birmingham I think you have made the right decision, lol!




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