It's sterling silver, the mark indicates 11 troy ounces, 2 pennyweight parts silver per 12 troy ounces, 222/240 pennyweight is the same percentage...
Lovely bags, in beautiful condition, by form and with those fancy jeweled frames, believe they're all most likely circa 1920s, the enameled armor...
Eh, I have a bit of an advantage - below is one of Mom's swan salts, now in my collection, it bears another Charles Tirbour mark, with the...
I've often seen similar 'aging' on Italian pieces like the 'Capodimonte' style vase with flowers linked, to my eye the 'dirt' always appeared to...
Ummm, it's 'Charles Tirbour' - a double salt cellar... ~Cheryl
Looks like Greek marks to me, the maker's registered number possibly 'η.33' (lower case eta)... ~Cheryl
Tiffany introduced their 'Antique' pattern in 1870, this is one of several variants of 'Antique Engraved', would have originally had a numeric...
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The OP's screen depicts a round ship, primarily used for cargo... ~Cheryl https://warhistory.org/@msw/article/roundships-redux [ATTACH]
It's a 1928 article with incorrect opinions and assumptions offered - it's a different world these days for research and exchange of...
So far as I know these silverplate marks and the variants haven't been firmly attributed, though personally, suspect they are marks used by F. &...
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