Inscription: Number stamped inside bottom next to marks: 1744
Marking: [1] crowned fleur-de-lis, 2 grains de remède, CLB, device a rose (maker's mark)
[2] rosette of fleurons (Paris charge mark for gold and small silver, 1768-75)
[3] crowned italic E (Paris warden's mark for gold, 1768-69)
[4] little cow (Paris discharge mark for work intended for export, 1765-74[?]
Location of marks:
[1]-[3]: inside cover, bottom and front wall
[4]: on bezel at right end
The little cow mark has been traditionally dated "ca. 1733-1775" on the combined evidence of an export mark (not described) registered in August 1733 and its appearance, according to Jacques Helft (verbally), on silver bearing the 1732-38 charge mark. The dates 1764-74 are given by Michèle Bimbenet-Privat in La Datation de l'orfèvrerie parisienne sous l'ancien régime, Paris, 1995.
