835
- Struck in
- Continental Europe, principally Germany and the Netherlands attributed, not confirmed
- Recorded on
- 1 piece
835 is another continental European silver standard: 835 parts fine per 1000, sitting between the 800 common in Italy and the 925 of sterling.
It is most associated with German and Dutch silver, and with mid-century Scandinavian and northern European work. A piece marked 835 is very likely European in origin even when nothing else on it says so, which makes it one of the more useful purity stamps for placing an unattributed piece.
Like 800, it is a real and respectable standard rather than a shortfall. The alloy is a little harder than sterling and takes a crisp stamped detail well, which is part of why it turns up so often on modernist and Brutalist work where the surface texture is the point.
Expect to find it small and shallow, often on an inner edge alongside a maker's mark or an import stamp. Where it appears with a designer's initials, those initials are what to look up.
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What this entry is based on
- one piece carrying this mark, handled and photographed by this shop Written with the piece in hand. No published hallmark reference covers most of these marks.
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