It pays to keep situational awareness!
:happy::happy::happy: Thank you, thank you, thank you. It didn't occur to me that the number was merely the date of the pattern. I think I'll...
I know I'm making this harder than it should be, but I've spent the morning inventorying my collection. I've been looking for marks and was even...
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 91ยข 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...
Just for fun, I cropped it a bit closer and enhanced the contrast somewhat, and put it to Google image... According to AI, it's either a...
Yeah, the other guys were friends of my Dad. I think he said they all signed 5 peso notes for each other as souvenirs. That's him in the middle,...
Quite possible, and all the more reason to learn what it says!
I have some wartime and post-WW2 currency that my father collected, and among other notes (from France, China, and Japan) is a Japanese occupation...
As long as there's not emulsion/varnish on the front, yes. Carefully remove it from the frame, lay the image on a padded surface, and carefully...
Sounds like a quarter plate.
You're in the UK, if I remember correctly, aren't you? We don't hear much, but from what I've read, y'all need a change. Best of luck!
Is the image reversed, as in a mirror image of the sitter? I can't make out enough detail to see how his coat or waistcoat button, but that would...
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