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Antique Silver Coin Dishes - $450 (Hope)
241 near grandview ave
condition:
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As Wikipedia says: On 10 January 1747, Louis was married by proxy at Dresden to Maria Josepha of Saxony, the 15-year-old younger daughter of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland and his wife, Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria. A second marriage ceremony took place in person at Versailles on 9 February 1747.
This medal celebrates that second marriage ceremony in Versailles.
The second dish is an Austrian Franz Joseph 2 Florin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Joseph_I_of_Austria
The mark at the bottom of that dish is upside down but I believe it is the mark used on .800 silver by the Republic of Austria after 1922. The image is of a toucan, interestingly, I think, rather than the hoopoe bird. There should be two other marks next to the toucan: a 4 to the top right and I can see a W at the bottom left. The W tells us that it was assayed in Vienna.The makers mark looks like OO or is it OD?.
I haven't found a reference to OO. But if .....
OD = Oscar Julius Dietrich (1853-1940): active in Vienna, 1881-1924?Partecipated in the Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and 1925. Executed designs by Franz Delavilla, Emanuel Josef Margold, Dagobert Peche and the architects Hans Bolek and A.O. Holub. The workshop closed in 1931.