I'll polish it free of charge, provided that I can keep it!! :P Deal?
A beautiful belt!! A wonderful thing to have.
Two pieces of silverware I bought...well, last year, now... [ATTACH] Cup: Engraved pedestal beaker (84 zolotnik Russian silver, 1850). Box:...
They most certainly are, but the lettering is very, very worn out. If you hold the blades up to the light in just the right angle, you can read...
Haha, yes, they're a seven-day set of straight razors :) I've been chasing a set since 2010 and I FINALLY got one that I could actually afford.
Possibly this. Been after one for damn near ten years... [ATTACH]
I reckon it's silver plate of some kind. Either Sheffield Plate or similar. One way to find out is just to clean it. If there are hallmarks,...
935 is the SWISS silver standard (10% higher than sterling, 925). So the case (if not the entire watch) was made in Switzerland. You can find...
Nice "sidewinder" watch. Something like this could date from the 1890s, definitely. By that time, crown-wind watches were pretty common. The...
It's tricky to say. They don't sell for much. They're very common and most people only want them if they're in a set. On top of that, to my...
It's a matchbox or vesta-case. These were often sold in pairs. Inkwell and vesta-case. Usually for writing-cases or traveling cases when going on...
If that's Peranakan, then it's the plainest Peranakan I've seen in my life!! The silversmith must've been sick that day.
...even MORE cleaning... [ATTACH] The one on the right MIGHT be a maker's mark...? I'm not sure. [ATTACH] I still don't know what the hell...
Komo's post basically explains why Silverplate is basically dead in the water these days. Nobody wants it. Nobody buys it. It holds next to no...
It was so that the unwashed rabble could pass off their silverplate as actual silver to other members of the unwashed rabble.
I've done some cleaning. Here's the hallmarks again... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There's definitely at least four hallmarks. But none which I recognise as being British in any way.
I've cleaned the interior as best as I can, including scraping off the black crusting of whatever the hell that stuff is. There's no other marks,...
...what's that for?
So. Any consensus yet? I've scoured loads of pages and websites, but...nothing yet.
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