Count me in too! ~Cheryl
Unless your pics are deceptive, I see a slight amount of residual plating - regardless, it was originally a silverplated piece as indicated by the...
Good to see you, Bear! ~Cheryl
A square or rectangular maker's mark on French silver would indicate that it's silverplate - solid silver maker's marks, from 1838 on, would be in...
Fairly common salad bowl from right around the 1960s, yours doesn't really look like it to me, but mine is mahogany (they also made sterling...
1994 Tribune article mentioning the 'Nostalgia' wreaths:...
They're neat items, but there's just been all sorts of silly stuff written about these wreaths - and they're not exactly 'rare', since there are...
Hobbyist piece, might even be a mold number hidden under all that excess glaze. Used to be tons of little ceramic shops around, you'd go in and...
Despite all the 'Victorian' sales descriptions, it's a pricey piece made by an American company called 'Petites Choses' - Mom has one next to her...
Smart on the shower cap - I just tape a piece of tissue paper over the light... ~Cheryl
There is a good market for genuine Spanish Colonial silver, the Mexican pieces were heavily and usually obviously faked, can't say that I've seen...
Eh, must have been researching some coin silver - Ensko, etc. have gone missing (memory is shot, right along with my eyesight). Did find this...
The zig-zag 'shark fin' mark would be a 'burilada', an assay scrape - the other might be some sort of inventory mark... ~Cheryl
My pattern too, still love it all these years later... ~Cheryl
Similar totem pins have been made for decades, that one bears an uncanny resemblance to some Steve Stamas designs, but would expect his mark......
Probably about right on dating, though it could be earlier - Spanish Colonial, Guatemalan. Those marks can be found both alone and together, my...
With my failing eyesight, the pics are too small to see them clearly, but from what I can see, the gilt decoration and the mention of other...
Thanks, Silver. Geez, women's fads can just be so silly - must have come late to your mother's crowd, Johnson & Johnson notes that they were...
Don - have always associated the affectation of facial patches and the tiny boxes used to hold them with the 17th and 18th centuries, pretty much...
Love the bee skep decanter set! ~Cheryl
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