I see what you mean but sadly just scratches that caught the light right.
It’s got an interesting design. It looks like they are flying right out of the silver at you in a 3D movie kind of way.
Danke
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Grabbed this tea set today at a sale. It’s marked .800 and there is a single number on each piece. It seems like there...
Bought this neat little .800 vase for a little under melt. Was hoping I would be able to identify the maker once I got it. I have no idea though....
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Found this at a thrift store several minutes before close a while back. Was hoping it might be silver and grabbed it....
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Not really much here value wise it seems? Signed on reverse bottom, bail reads 92.5%. Theres a hole so you can see the...
True!
The serrated rectangle was definitely used a “reasonable“ (not super common but I wouldn’t say rather uncommon either) amount in the last quarter...
The link you provided credits OPs mark to 31’-33’. Coin silver was used well past that range yes.
Pattern is known as ‘Basket of Flowers’ btw. It’s a desired one in the world of coin silver collectors.
looks like it. https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum19/HTML/000361.html
In my experience coin silver makers marks in a serrated (I’ve seen it called scalloped) rectangle are always early. As BG pointed out these are...
Looks very similar to RH stuff you’re right. The difference I see in the dragon handled stuff I saw by RH is their dragons had the head on top of...
So close I would find it hard to believe it wasn’t made by the company. You never know though! Great eye, I didn’t find that one.
Oooooh interesting! Any backstory at all?
[ATTACH] Woo! That’s it, mochitsuki! Yum! I feel very silly thinking they were playing, oh well. I’ll have to buy some mochi next time I’m at a...
I noticed that the look was different than other pieces marked Carlsbad (which I did know was a place). Your point about the crazing is...
Yeh it’s odd I thought it looked newer too! Then I saw a ton of similar examples without any claiming to be any newer and just figured I was...
I’ll do that. I did post to one knife place and got nothing but there was one suggested I’ll probably try. The guard leaves a lot to be desired...
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