183. Hallmark of rhinoceros head facing left
Poinçon tête de rhinocéros
Rhinoceros head hallmark facing left with a complete horn, surrounded by a shaped border. Remark hallmark stamped every 10 cm on gold chains and flexible bracelets. Departments 1838-1980. Between 1910 and 1912, the rhinoceros head hallmark was used to mark platinum. And between 1940 and 1943, this hallmark accompanied the hallmarks of a dog’s head, eagle’s head and mixed (76) to prove the payment of the increase in the guarantee duties raised to 12 francs per gram.
The information on the rhinoceros head hallmark to the left and the other illustrations of hallmarks on this website come from the book Traditional French Jewellery, 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 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 hallmark offices, are published in this book for the first time. You can thus locate the origin of the jewels and also date them with more precision.
