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A silver object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more silver hallmarks indicating the purity of the silver, the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith, and other (optional) markings to indicate the date of manufacture and additional information about the piece.
Multiple marks on silver, left to right: maker's mark , lion passant (assay mark for sterling silver), London town mark, date letter (1835), duty mark . A mark is a written or imprinted symbol used to indicate some trait of an item, for example, its ownership or maker.
Hallmarks are often confused with "trademarks" or "maker's marks". A hallmark is not the mark of a manufacturer to distinguish their products from other manufacturers' products: that is the function of trademarks or makers' marks. To be a true hallmark, it must be the guarantee of an independent body or authority that the contents are as marked.
Vasily Bolin, like his father, kept his Swedish citizenship. In 1904 he purchased a property in the south of Sweden which he visited each summer together with his family. Showing foresight, he opened a branch office in Bad Homburg in Germany in 1912 - a spa visited by the Tsar and his family.
C.G. Hallberg was a prominent Swedish goldsmith and jeweler to the Swedish Court.Its central store was located at Drottninggatan 6 in Stockholm. [1] It is best known for its silverware and metalware which continue to fetch high prices in auctions today.
In total, archaeologists found 170 silver coins dating between 1150 to 1180, the museum said. Photos show the handful of slightly tarnished coins. Some of the 800-year-old artifacts had completely ...
A Swedish subsidiary, AB A. Michelsen, Stockholm, was established in 1946. In 1985, A. Michelsen was merged with the Royal Porcelain Factory , Holmegaard Glasværk and Georg Jensen under the name Royal Copenhagen.