Hallmarks of Chișinău
Found: 7Hallmarks of Chișinău: 7 records in the reference, dated between 1960 and 1968. Most frequent: Кишиневская ювелирная мастерская — 2, Кишиневская фабрики металлоизделий и металлоремонта — 2. 5 different makers and works are named. Every entry carries an image of the mark, its letters, the years it was in use and the shape of the shield. A city mark was struck by the assay office of the town where the item was tested, next to the maker’s initials and the fineness mark. This combination is what ties a silver or gold object to a place and a date.
Moscow 965Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) 624Krasnoe-na-Volge 183Tallinn 152Kyiv 126Tbilisi 123Vilnius 107Riga 99Yaroslavl 63Vologda 55Kostroma 53Veliky Ustyug 50Odesa 50Kazan 43Kaluga 36Minsk 32Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg) 32Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz) 30Novgorod 29Sidorovskoe 29Arkhangelsk 27Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) 26Tartu 25Baku 25 All — hallmarks by town
Chisinau Jewelry Workshop - "MP7" - 1967
Kishinev Metal Products and Metal Repair Factory - "FE5" - 1965
Kishinev Factory "Electrometalloremont" - "KE4" - 1964
Kishinev Plant - "ZE0" - 1960
Kishinev Metalware and Metal Repair Factory - "FM1" - 1961
Kishinev Jewelry Workshop - "MP8" - 1968
Kishinev Metal Products and Metal Repair Factory - "FEZ" - 1963
