🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Silver cross pendant with two crowns and letter "S" hallmark?

[FreeBirdTim]

Too tired to post a decent picture, but today I found a silver cross (in a circle) pendant with a hallmark that has two crowns side by side and the letter "S" next to the crowns. I know that a crown is a Sheffield hallmark, but can't find any info regarding a two crown hallmark. I do believe that it was manufactured recently and it is not vintage or antique. Any help would be appreciated.

 

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[Red-Coat]

Hi Tim.

The crown can be a Sheffield hallmark, but only if it's the right type of crown, is accompanied by a lion passant (to denote 'sterling'), plus a date letter and a sponsor's mark at minimum. In some years, additional symbols were required. British hallmarks are heavily regulated with respect to format and everything needs to be of the correct styling, including the font used for the date letter and the cartouche shapes for the icons... both of which vary with each hallmark cycle.

This would be Sheffield for 1960 for example (sponsor mark not shown):

What you're describing doesn't sound like a hallmark for Sheffield, or anywhere else in Britain.

If I could see a picture of the marks, I could comment further and perhaps say what they actually might be.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Okay, here's the best pics I can take with my friend's iPad. Still looks like two crowns and the letter "S" to me. The other side has a name or numbers stamped on it, but I can't read it. Doesn't look like .925, though.

 

[Red-Coat]

Thanks. That helps enormously. The marks have nothing whatsoever to do with Sheffield.

They look to be Swedish hallmarks. I think you’ll find there are actually three crowns, arranged ‘two above one’ (the National Control Mark used by Sweden) but with the bottom crown partly lost by being stamped on the curvature of the loop.

The ‘S in hexagon’ mark denotes a minimum silver standard of .800 fine but also covers higher standards such as .830 and .925 (sterling). I can’t read the letters/numbers on the other side either, but perhaps "830S" (?) to indicate .830 silver.

Date-wise, I couldn’t say, except that these are 20th Century marks or later, and not from the early 20th Century.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Thank you! I never would have figured that one out. It rang up as 86 on my AT Pro, so I was pretty sure it had some silver content. Now I can put it in my dug silver jewelry collection. Thanks again!