I rest my case.
Silver, bronze, brass, whatever it is - I polish it. Polishing brass and silver was a VERY common preoccupation during the Victorian era - They...
I hate asparagus. I shall use them to eat fish-fingers!
Hi Susan, That was extremely informative! Thank you. So is this Italian silver, then? Or what? Frankly I'm amazed the 925-purity mark was so...
I know! That's what she said as well, but to me, it's just a higgle-de-piggledy mess of...wiggles... I don't understand how anybody sees numbers...
That's what the lady who sold it to me, said, but I just couldn't see it, so that's why I posted it here. I don't see '925' ANYWHERE. I see A...
[ATTACH] How's that?
Smart and intelligent peoples, I need your help! I picked this up at the local flea-market. It was simply labeled "Silver" and the lady said it...
According to current conversion-rates, I paid 39.50GBP for my piece.
Ooooooh!! Thanks CC. That was extremely interesting reading! I found several links SELLING these, but I could find no information explaining...
Won this today at the local auction house. [IMG] Hallmarks for CJ Vanders. Sheffield. Sterling. 1997. Was listed as an 'ash tray'. A friend...
That was what drew me to it. Most cruet/condiment sets I see are very complicated and over-decorated. This one had simple clean lines, minimal...
Well, shows what I know...
This was on sale at my local flea-market for months, and when I bought it, the lady slashed the price by over 1/3. She must've really wanted to...
No wonder they used to hide bodies in these things back in the old detective stories...
Unfortunately, it doesn't state what fineness it is. There's literally no other marks on it.
I've checked everywhere. There's no other mark. Japanese silver is 950, that's what I do know, so I guess that's what this is.
Here's the best shot I can get of the mark. The upper character definitely looks like 'gin' (silver). But I am curious to find out what the...
The Japanese silver mark was "Jungin" ("Pure Silver"). I can see the gin mark, so that's silver at least. I'm not sure what the other character is.
Please tell me what I have here? I bought these from a lady who said they were 950 Japanese silver. I have bought SOME Japanese silver before,...
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