066. Hallmark of a man’s head on the left in a round frame
Hallmark of a man’s head to the left in a round frame, assay office mark inscribed in the listel, for large silver guarantee. Departments 1809-1819.
The information on the man’s head hallmark and the other hallmark illustrations on this site come 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 sellected 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.
