Marking: [1] crowned fleur-de-lis, two grains de remède, C L B, device a rose (maker's mark)
[2] harrow (Paris charge mark for gold [and small silver], 1756-62)
[3] crowned italic s (Paris warden's mark for gold, 1758-59)
[4] little cow (Paris discharge mark for work intended for export, 1765-74[?]
[5] eagle's head, single outline (Paris mark for gold, restricted warranty, 1838-47)
Location of marks:
[1], [2], [3]: inside cover, base and end wall of box
[4], [5]: outside on rim of box; [5] struck twice, also on rim of cover
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.
