HALLMARKS OF ITALIAN SILVER
(LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY)

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This is a selection of marks used by Italian silversmiths of the 20th century.
The use of a 'factory mark' is a practice scarsely followed by Italian silversmiths and usually the identification of the maker relies only on the 'number' introduced in 1935 on the 'lozenge mark'.
In this page I presents some marks of Italian factories, identified or not identified, trying to create the bases for a future deepening of this interesting matter.
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11		GRASSI LUIGI - Milano Mark MI 208 Factory marks (eagle inside an octagon and rampant lion?) were used beside the lozenge mark with 208MI and fascio. A stylized GP and point monogram was also used (may be the sign of the designer: Gio Ponti?) The mark belongs to a rectangular silver tray made about 1940.
12		BULGARI GIOIELLI SPA - Roma Mark RM 1250 (from 5 April 2000) another mark Bulgari Italia spa RM 745 da 1 October 1988 The mark belongs to a sterling silver bowl with a coin of Ancient Rome on the bottom (circa 1990)

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