EK1 Vaulted "800"

[Guest Darrell]

Well ... 1st post :food-smiley-004:

EK1 Vaulted "800" screwback:

[RoyA]

Nice one Darrell!

Did you get that from RM?

I think I may have seen it in the flesh.

Roy

Edited April 2, 2005 by RoyA

[Guest Darrell]

Yep .. Richie strikes again ... :food-smiley-004:

[Laurence Strong]

hey Roy, Good to see you again. I think the peace and serenity of this forum is lost forever :food-smiley-004:

[Gordon Williamson]

Darrell, Snap !

[Guest Darrell]

Nice Gordon. We have many pieces in common :food-smiley-004:

[Stogieman]

Nice EK's. I much prefer this type of S/B over the usual "ridged-dome" one sees peddled in extraoridinary numbers these days. Nice crosses!

[Jim Baker]

Darrell,

I had the twin of your cross, with an unusual swan like marking on the 9 o'clock arm. Another in my long list of "should have kepts".

Stogie, I agree, these are much better.

[Guest Darrell]

Darrell,

I had the twin of your cross, with an unusual swan like marking on the 9 o'clock arm.  Another in my long list of "should have kepts".  

Stogie, I agree,  these are much better.

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Ok ... I've gone cross-eyed looking for swans ... what you say Jim ??

[Mike K]

Hi,

I only just read this thread and saw Jim's reference to his ex-cross.

Following are some blurry pics of the cross but very good images of the unusual marking.

Regards

Mike K

[Mike K]

the reverse of the cross - markings aren't visible but are as indicated.

[Mike K]

and finally the marking - taken/viewed at 4 different angles.

I got onto a serious silver collectors forum and even they could not find a 100% match to the mark. It is almost certainly NOT a swan though. Swan markings were used on some silver imported into France but that swan mark is different. The marking is actually best represented by the top left angle and is most likely a leaping fish/porpoise. There is a similar marking (actually a mirror imaged - ie double - a leaping porpoise but the design of this single porpoise is VERY similar) used by Romania for imported silver items during/just after WW1. All I can think of is that during the German occupation of Bucharest in WW1 a local jeweller imported some EK1s from Germany and marked them with an import stamp similar to those known to have been used at the time.

Regards

Mike K

Edited June 9, 2005 by Mike K

[Stogieman]

:excl: Kind of looks like a Manatee !!

[Bob Hunter]

...or something embryonic.