Thanks for that link. It goes a ways toward confirming my thoughts about this spoon. I really didn't think it was sterling. It just doesn't have...
My guess is .800 or .835, more likely, if not sterling.
This tiny spoon is 4 inches long and has no marks at all. It tarnishes like silver, but it's hard to tell if the tarnish looks like plated or...
The jeweler I sold some damaged and scrap silver to last spring (at 91¢ per gram) gave me about 90% of spot for sterling. He said at the time that...
I have visions of Lovejoy, Tinker, Eric, and Lady Jane oohing and aahing there.
I can be cheap, or easy, but not both. That would be, well, just easy and cheap... :playful::playful:
This makes me have a picture in my mind of cloistered monks arguing over this like rabbis arguing in the Talmud.
If I remember my saws correctly, they're designed to cut in both directions, both pushed and pulled. I'm not sure if that's so of the one man...
Ballistol is a mineral oil gun cleaning product. I'd use it with a bronze wire brush. This will clean the surface without damaging the patina. On...
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