Good advice. I took a quick look at the Russian board of the 925 site: the fierce old disagreements between experts are still going strong, if...
Agree about it having been gilded and a sugar shifter. I can maybe see a faint H etc too, but not sure what to make of that. Hard to see it as...
Lovely spoon! Congrats! I was going to stay out of this because 1) Russian silver is a minefield, 2) it was the reason I left eBay ten years...
My German is rusty but I suspect it might say um 1750 Christus in German, which means (made) about 1750, Christ. The price might be e.g. German...
You know those awful visitor name tags with clips or claws that you have no way of attaching if you don’t have a jacket or a shirt pocket? The...
Naah, just procrastinating… have a project I should start. Any excuse… I promise this won’t last long. :)
L was apparently used as a town mark for London by some electroplaters. And B1 denotes quality....
P.S. I was first wondering if deniers were like the lots or loths (löthige) used in German speaking countries, i.e. 1/16th parts. That led to...
Correct. I was calculating from 11/12 and not bothering about the third decimal since they called it the French standard. Didn’t notice the...
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