Codan
Codan was a Mexican silversmith. In the first half of the 20th century, silver items manufactured in Mexico were marked simply "silver" or "sterling". Usually a location (Mexico or a town name) and silver fineness (925, 925/1000, 950, 980) was included.
In 1948, the Government of Mexico promoted the reintroduction of the "eagle mark" to identify the manufacturers of silver items. The "eagle" was stamped with a number associated to a silver manufacturing company. This system was unsuccessful as eagle stamps were misused or "loaned" to more than one artist of maker and was abandoned in the 1980s. It was substituted by the "letter and number" system adopted c. 1980 and still in use. In the "Letter and number" system a letter identifies a location (T for Taxco, M for Mexico City), and the second letter is the first letter of the maker's first or last name. The number is the number of registrations of the maker.The majority of their work in the middle of the Twentieth Century was in the Scandinavian taste of makers such as a Georg Jensen.
