✅ SOLVED Little Swedish Silver Hallmarked Pin ??

[tamrock]

I got this little 2-1/4" long Sami spoon pin today for $5.35. I know its from Sweden 🇸🇪 and made of 80% alloy silver with a F9 date mark of 1956, which is the year I came to be. There are two marks one which is for a silversmith of BAL and one after it, which is a P for the town I believe this smith worked at. Those are the two marks I'd like to know the meaning of. Thanks for any efforts 👌

 

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[Red-Coat]

Nice thing to have Tamrock. The ‘P’ in a square cartouche is for the municipality of Pajala in Sweden. I could only find one company using the ‘BAL’ mark but I think not the maker for your spoon. The company was Stilisti Scandinavia AB (2004) and then Stilisti AB (2004-2008) but based in Stockholm.

Initial letter maker marks can be freely re-used by others if the original registrant doesn’t renew them, but I don’t know who might have been using those letters in 1956

 

[tamrock]

Nice thing to have Tamrock. The ‘P’ in a square cartouche is for the municipality of Pajala in Sweden. I could only find one company using the ‘BAL’ mark but I think not the maker for your spoon. The company was Stilisti Scandinavia AB (2004) and then Stilisti AB (2004-2008) but based in Stockholm.

Initial letter maker marks can be freely re-used by others if the original registrant doesn’t renew them, but I don’t know who might have been using those letters in 1956

Thank you for your efforts, RC. After reviewing other examples it seems this piece is a souvenir of the Sami people. This lead me to read early this morning, more of who they are. Not to be called Laplanders anymore as they find that offensive. Interesting it is they are considered Europe's only indigenous people. In very recent times they've been struggling for rights to their traditional lands with the Swedish government and big corporate mining companies. They just want to do as they always have done to hunt and fish without any regulations or restrictions. I also find it interesting that this little piece of silver came from a place 4567 miles always from Pajala Sweden to Denver, Colorado. How it made its way here, I'll never know.

 

[tamrock]

I just remembered what forum I posted this. Most all of it has been figured out, but the makers mark, so with that I'll mark it as.... SOLVED!