Hallmarks of Mstyora
Found: 8Hallmarks of Mstyora: 8 records in the reference, dated between 1958 and 1968. Most frequent: Мстерская художественная фабрика — 6, Артель "Мстерский ювелир" — 2. 2 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
Mstera Artistic Factory - "YuM7" - 1967
Mstyora Artistic Factory - "YuM5" - 1965
Artel "Mstersky Yuvelir" - "MYu8" - 1958
Mstyora Artistic Factory - "YuM4" - 1964
Mstyora Artistic Factory - "YuM6" - 1966
Artel "Mstersky Yuvelir" - "YuM0" - 1960
Mstyora Artistic Factory - "YuM1" - 1961
Mstyora Artistic Factory - "YuM8" - 1968
