Need help identifying these hallmarks, country, estimate of age ect. Many thanks
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Hello, these hallmarks clearly state that this thing is made in 925 sterling silver. Sterling silver is actually a silver alloy which is made of 92.5% copper and 7.5% copper or nickel.
To know more about 925 sterling silver, you can read the article
Hi, thanks for info, but I was more hoping someone could tell me where the hallmark is from, I have a good collection of English silver, this is clearly not. I’ve searched for ages trying to find out what country it is from, with no luck.
Easier to say where it’s not from, than to figure where it is from. Clearly not British. If it were from the U.S. or Canada, I’d expect to see some identification of the maker - Towle, Reed & Barton, Tiffany, Birks, Roden Brothers, something. Likewise, sterling from any of the Scandinavian or other European countries would have some hallmarks or maker’s marks beyond the simple declaration of the silver content. Ditto for places like South Africa or India. Japan or China? There, too, I’d expect more information.
I’ve done some image hunting, and haven’t spotted anything even close - the semi-circular STERLING and the oversized 2 should make it easier, but no luck.
Walmart or Amazon Basic silver? 
Possibly Mexican? Circular or semi-circular sterling marks are used there but I would expect something more specific to identify the maker.
Phil
Thanks all for taking the time to respond and check it out for me, appreciate it 
It’s almost certainly Japanese and a design made for import from there for Liberties of London The maker is either “SM” or school of “SM” and somebody recently did a great deal of research on who that was. It’s a 20th century post war nut dish. Very stylish. These dishes show up from time to time and, because they are so plain and so modern, fetch good money. Cannot tell you why it is not marked for maker. Could be someone was imitating SM. For it to be legally sold in the UK there would have been an import mark applied then by the town guild.
See useful article on this by Phil:
https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/import.html
So the fact there isn’t one and that Liberties did so much trade with Japan it opened an office there in 1988, tends to point to either it was never legally imported to the UK or it is someone copying an established style.
Either way it is a great dish. If I was a cynic I might have it tested for Sterling, but it likely is, the Americans post war were fairly harsh on Japanese who broke the rules.
CRWW.