Asking for a friend. 330 grams .thanks
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Hi Paul:
You have likely been looking up the American Sterling makers marks and come up crickets.
Someone recently sold a similar machine-stamped tazza as European but declined to hazard its maker and did not illustrate the mark.
Most European silver is .800 or .850. So if it was European then it’s perhaps Dutch, but I doubt it.
So the mark appears to be a capital H or a double II superimposed on a key or bar that looks rather like knife support.
Your snap shot won’t tolerate much enlargement without blurring so you might consider posting a mark shot using a better camera lens, a steadier hand or even better focus!.
But based on what I can see, its late 19th or early 20th century and made by someone cranking out enough of them to post a catalogue number on it.
Always amuses me the word “tazza” is Italian or Arabic for cup which is what this item’s forebears started out being and gradually evolved into something to stick cucumber sandwiches on.
CRWW
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George A Henckel & Co it is. Many thanks Bart.
U welcome, Paul! 
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