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A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of metal, mostly to certify the content of noble metals—such as platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term hallmark is used to refer to any standard of quality.
Le Tallec's pieces without these marks are likely to be produced between 1930 and 1941. Incrementation of the dating system was done every six-month period from 1941 to 1991, then every year since. By 1978, date of the transfer of the atelier from Belleville to rue de Reuilly in Paris, the date mark starts by R (for Reuilly), then the letter.
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Assay offices are institutions set up to assay (test the purity of) precious metals. This is often done to protect consumers from buying fake items. Upon successful completion of an assay (i.e. if the metallurgical content is found be equal or better than that claimed by the maker and it otherwise conforms to the prevailing law) the assay offices typically stamp a hallmark on the item to ...
The silver and/or gold metal hallmarks used by the silversmith are as follows: from 1844 to 1935, a scale with a bee between the trays, topped by 4 stars, 2 branches below and the letters CC, all in an oval in a rectangle. since 1935, the letters CC are replaced by the letters OC, for "Orfèvrerie Christofle", as a company mark.
Jean-Valentin Morel (1794–1860) [1] was a French gold and silversmith noted for the quality of his work. Bronze medallion representing Morel by the French sculptor Pierre-Adolphe Dammouse, 1858 Covered Jug, c. 1845. Cleveland Museum of Art Jewelry Box, c. 1842-1848. Rijksmuseum
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