Good Hunt Snorkling. Any Ideas on Maker’s Mark?

[ajaj]

Researched a local lake and found a map from 1933 that indicated “North Beach”. Well, there is no beach there today, but I rowed out to the area nonetheless. I was rewarded with the Waltham watch, a crusty copper ring, an odd buckle that I can’t identify, and topped it off with a very small 10K gold signet ring. I took a photo of the Maker’s Mark. Does anybody know the maker?

aj

 

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[lenmac65]

That gold ring is a beauty. An SLQ too? Nice hunt.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Nice hunt AJ, I don’t recognize the maker but that’s an oldie for sure. Looking forward to fall so we can get out without you melting(;

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice finds, congrats!

 

[xr7ator]

Nice research, sweet rewards. Bet there's more! Grats and thanks for posting.

 

[Tuberale]

Research is what brings the silver and gold in.

 

[A2coins]

Great day for you that waltham is really cool gold is great also good hunt

 

[coin1921]

Great day for you that waltham is really cool gold is great also good hunt

 

[ajaj]

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Thank you for the information. This doesn’t look like a British hallmark. British hallmarks usually come with several symbols. Everything that I have found in this area is from the 1920s to 1930s. By the way, I have pulled two more gold rings from here over the last couple days!

aj

 

[Red-Coat]

Thank you for the information. This doesn’t look like a British hallmark. British hallmarks usually come with several symbols. Everything that I have found in this area is from the 1920s to 1930s. By the way, I have pulled two more gold rings from here over the last couple days!

aj

You're quite right. It's not a British hallmark. We have a set of what are known as 'compulsory marks' and you'll never see anything from any of our Assay Offices with just a numerical purity indication and maker's initials. Also, 10K is not an accepted gold standard over here and cannot be used as a purity mark. Anything made from 10K gold would have to be marked 'below assay' as 9K.

I would be pretty sure it's an American mark, but I don't recognise the maker's initials.

 

[washingtonian]

Good hunting!! So was it overgrown with shrubs and wetlands now? Never really thought about the fact that man-made beaches would need to be actively mantained but that makes sense they would quickly get overgrown if not.

 

[WaterScoop]

A lot of jewelry will have several stamps or marks. Often there is one stamp to indicate the purity of the gold . The purity mark can be accompanied by a second mark called a maker’s mark or a jeweller’s stamp.

Most likely you have a jewelers Mark for a custom ring.

These are custom stamps or engravings placed in jewelry by whomever manufactured it. Sometimes they are letters or initials, and sometimes they are ornate icons (like a heart or a bell, for example). There are a huge number of unique jeweller’s marks. Matching these stamps back to the original manufacturer can be extremely difficult. Your best tool to do this is Google. There are a number of decent websites that have listings of some of the hallmarks. But be prepared, it will probably take some digging of the cyber sleuth kind sans a shovel

Nice find thanx for sharing and inspiring us to research more for the good stuff.

 

[ajaj]

Thank you everyone for all of your kind words and advice. The beach area, apparently, was very small. There was a club up on the hill nearby. The club is long gone and a house now occupies the lakefront property. The lake has been used for a very long time... on some of the wooded shores I have found late 18th century/early 19th century large cents. It’s funny, when I’m snorkeling, one can make out where the original beach was. It’s now under about 5 feet of water. But yes, do the research and be prepared to put in the extra effort. There are times in that one will be successful, times that one will be disappointed, and times that, according to Bob Ross, there will be happy accidents.

For the record, I have done 5 one hour hunts at this underwater beach in the last five days. The results are three gold rings (one is a 1935 high school class ring), eight non-precious metal rings, one standing liberty quarter, one 1921 buffalo nickel, a couple of brass buckles, two rusted watches, a couple of interesting brass hair ties, an old luggage tag, and countless bathing cap buckles. It has been hard work in 4 - 8 feet of water, but a blast!

aj