Help with provenance of a silver/ enamel cigarette holder

[ellakopella]

Hello all

I'm wondering if someone could please help me identify the provenance of this 935 silver cigarette holder - I believe it is guilloche enamel and a bakelite mouthpiece.  the mouthpiece and the silver stem unscrew - I imagine for cleaning/ replacement at the time.

I've attached some pics - sorry, I do need to clean the silver; it's been sitting in a jewellery box for eons.

I'm curious about the hallmark - 935 USUS - Is this duplicate mark 'US'?

And any idea of age?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Em

[SILVERFINGER]

Well Estonia made 935 silver, it could also denote the year 1935 on some items, USUS I think was a German firm and is still going, they made cigarette holders, smoking supplies like filters, posh pens/biros, cutthroat razors etc.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-GERMANY-USUS-STERLING-SILVER-925-BALLPOINT-PEN-/183119270460

 

https://wowma.jp/item/274327046

 

 

 

[CoinFinders]

I did a quick search for the 935 hallmark.  Turns out this was a known silver standard for a few years before it was discontinued by the trade in the early 20th century.  That story is here: http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/blogthreebears.php

Found another one sponsored by the Silver Forum -- this defines all the different fineness of silver alloys.
http://www.925-1000.com/a_Standards.html

I couldn't find anything specific to the cigarette holder.  Thanks from Scotty at CoinFinders

 

[SILVERFINGER]

1 minute ago, CoinFinders said:

I did a quick search for the 935 hallmark.  Turns out this was a known silver standard for a few years before it was discontinued by the trade in the early 20th century.  That story is here: http://www.vintagewatchstraps.com/blogthreebears.php

Found another one sponsored by the Silver Forum -- this defines all the different fineness of silver alloys.
http://www.925-1000.com/a_Standards.html

I couldn't find anything specific to the cigarette holder.  Thanks from Scotty at CoinFinders

 

 

Well thats all new to me I thought only Estonia used that stamp, I have bookmarked those pages for future reference, cheers for that 

[ellakopella]

Hi all

Thank you so much for the info/ advice.

@SILVERFINGERthanks for that eBay link - I'll look into German silver.

I will check out the links you shared @CoinFinders, they give me a great start on finding out a bit more about this item.

Based on what you've both shared, it's possible that it was made in Germany.

Cheers

Emma

 

[SILVERFINGER]

No problem, we are happy to help if we can, sometimes you just need to know what an item is, or who it was made by to give you a start to researching something.

[sovereignsteve]

Looks like a fancy priest to me, or maybe it's not heavy enough

[Roy]

@sovereignsteve, people buy it now, not poach it ?

[Goldhooked]

On 20/06/2018 at 19:50, sovereignsteve said:

Looks like a fancy priest to me, or maybe it's not heavy enough

Haha!  The posh way of putting your fish out of their misery