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Help With ID for Pair of Hanau Silver Mounted Bohemian Specimen Vases Please

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APEXantiques:


Hello ladies & gents,
     
      I recently came across this lovely pair of emerald green fading to clear specimen vases that to my eye appear to be almost certainly Bohemian in origin, dating to the last quarter of the 19th Century. As you'll note, each has a band of diamond pattern cutting towards the upper rim and the upper edges are mounted with what appear at first glance to be English Hallmarked Sterling Silver rims. Upon closer inspection however it becomes immediately evident that they most certainly are not English Hallmarks but what seem to be examples of the legendary Austro-Hungarian Hanau Silversmiths (so called) "Pseudo Marks" (for more info see https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html ).The cooler, form, style and cutting of the glass itself lead me to believe the vases were Bohemian though I am without any further proof however this would tie in perfectly with the maker of the mounts being Hanau based but as I am still yet positively ascribe a silversmith to the hallmark, my whole theory is nothing more than that!

 Finally to my question... Is anyone able to confirm or deny my theory &/or provide any further information or leads/direction of further study on these lovely little vases?

Many thanks to all who read and special thanks to those who may choose to answer.
Aaron L K from APEX

Ekimp:
Hi, it’s hard to make out the detail in your photograph of the hallmarks but they look very like those for London 1904/5? That would also be close to your estimated age of the glass. https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/London/Date%20Letters%20I.html

My understanding is that the glass was imported to England, then the silver rims were made and attached in England before retail, see here: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/127999-mustard-tango-glass-vase-with-london-hal

APEXantiques:
I'll post another photo, it is definitely not an English hallmark, the punch shapes are totally different for starters.

NevB:
Apparently it was not unusual for foreign silver marks to be overstamped with English ones. The lion rampant, i and what looks like a leopard's head do appear to be the London mark for 1904.

APEXantiques:
I would have thought people knowledgeable enough to render an opinion on the matter would be observant enough to notice that although there is a leopard head & a lion GARANT (not rampant), not only are the punch shapes different but the actual images are completely different from those used in the 1904 (or any) hallmark.

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