MEXICO STERLING SILVER AND SILVERPLATE MARKS

MARKS AND HALLMARKS OF MEXICAN SILVER MAKERS
UNIDENTIFIED MAKERS A - B - C

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AN INTRODUCTION TO MEXICO SILVER MARKING
In the first half of the 20th century silver items manufactured in Mexico were marked simply "silver" or "sterling". Usually a location (Mexico or a town name) and silver fineness (925, 925/1000, 950, 980) was included.
In 1948 the Government of Mexico promoted the reintroduction of the "eagle mark" to identify the manufacturers of silver items. The "eagle" was stamped with a number associated to a silver manufacturing company. This system was unsuccessful, eagle stamps were misused or "loaned" to more than one artist of maker and was abandoned in the 1980s. It was substituted by the "letter and number" system adopted circa 1980 and still in use.
In the "Letter and number" system a letter identifies a location (T for Taxco, M for Mexico City), the second letter is the first letter of an individual's first or last name of the maker. The number is the number of registration of the maker.
From left to right: early Mexican mark (before 1948), eagle mark (1948-c.1980), "letter and number" mark (c.1980-present).
Alongside EAGLE and STERLING, the most frequently marks present on Mexican silver are HECHO EN MEXICO, MEXICO, TAXCO, PLATA, SILVER and fineness numbers as 925, 0,925, 980, 0,900, 950

Plateria FarFan: eagle 13 mark (1948 - c.1980)

MEXICO STERLING AND SILVERPLATE MAKERS

A - B - C D - E - F - G - H I - J - K - L M - N - O P - Q R -S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

UNIDENTIFIED MAKERS

A - C

D - J

K - O

P - Z

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AA
unidentified

AAR
possibly Antonio Reyna

ACE Guadalajara (possibly)
unidentified

A.F.G. Cuernavaca
unidentified

A.G.F. : eagle 1
unidentified

CH - Taxco
unidentified

CLS
unidentified

COLORADO
unidentified

AMERICAN STERLING SILVER

MAKER MARKS

I-J

P-Q

T-U-V

Wh-X-Y-Z

AMERICAN MAKERS

I - J - K

SILVER PLATE MARKS

U-V

We-X-Y-Z

STERLING SILVER OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF
MAKER'S MARKS AA
AE AF
AZ BA
BZ CA
CH CK
CZ DA
DZ EA
EZ FA
FZ GA
GZ HA
HG HH
HZ IA
IG IH
IZ JA
JC JD
JH JJ
JP JQ
JS

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF
MAKER'S MARKS JT
JZ KA
LZ MA
MZ NA
PA PB
PZ QA
RH RK
RZ SA
SG SH
SZ TA
TH TI
TZ UA
WB WC
WF WG
WL WM
WS WT
ZZ