179. Hallmark of a dog’s head to the right cut out and surrounded by a listel.
Hallmark of a dog’s head to the right cut out and surrounded by a listel.
Hallmark of a dog’s head to the right cut out and surrounded by a listel. Introduced in 1913 (decree of December 5, 1912) for small items in platinum (even containing iridium) with a fineness of 950/000 until 1994 when other hallmarks for pure platinum and with finenesses of 950, 900 and 850/000 were introduced. From 1994 the cut dog’s head hallmark is only used to mark small platinum objects of 850/000. Assay office mark on the neck. (Note that between 1910 and 1912, the rhinoceros head hallmark was used to mark platinum. Between 1940 and 1943, the rhinoceros head hallmark accompanied the dog head hallmark on platinum jewellery) .
The information on the cut-out right dog’s head hallmark and the other hallmark illustrations on this site are from the book Les Bijoux des Français, written by Mike Fieggen, expert in antique jewellery and hallmarks from Osprey Paris. This 300-page book, the definitive reference on French regional jewels and their hallmarks, is available in French and English in our store, on Amazon and at certain bookshops. A complete list of the assay office marks, small secret marks in the hallmarks that allow you to identify in which city an object was hallmarked, as well as a list of the closing dates of the guarantee offices, are included in this book. You can thus, and for the first time, locate the origin of the jewels and also date them with more precision.
