Most crown marks are accompanied with other text or symbols as well, without those additional marks your crown may appear quite similar to many...
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Funnily enough, it does sort of look like that, but from all the high-res images I've seen, the word is incomplete and unclear. Let's see what...
I saw this ring for sale on eBay earlier... Is this where you bought it from? It appears to be a base metal with copperplating and goldplating...
These are Japanese cast iron paperweights, the side with the protruding middle would have a short rope tied to simply lift the weight as needed....
Old pewter contains lead, there are modern pewters which are lead-free.
It looks reminiscent of 1950s work by Vicke Lindstrand, but the signature does appear different.
As for the rest... ジーン、パトン様 Not really sure I have that right or not, nor do I know what it means?
昌三 = Shozo
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