European Silver Marks
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Printer Friendly
European Silver Marks are often the most frustrating of all silver marks to identify. Central European countries, collectively called Bohemia (Bavaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia etc), changed their borders frequently after wars, resulting in residents migrating, with confusion and adjustment imposed by the new sovereign, with a change in ‘National Treasure’ through massive silver inventory drives to count and weigh all available silver within the “new” borders. Another mark was struck on several antique silver items from these countries so as to identify that an item was included in the inventory.
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