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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 365085, member: 25&quot;]But they went to me, so that is OK <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In a local auction, well, sort of local, it&#039;s about a hour&#039;s drive each way, I bought a set of six china lined foreign silver teacups and saucers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]125011[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>for the modest price of just over £50. I had left a much higher bid but the saleroom was an honest one and they went for the bottom estimate. The reason for this I suspect, is that either everyone except me was watching the royal wedding (the sale was today, Saturday) or the foreign silver marks deterred the buyers. Here is a picture of the marks and I would appreciate any opinions on where they may be from and what they mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]125015[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The first mark may be an arabic 90 for the silver purity.</p><p>The others I do not recognise.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of searches set up in thesaleroom.com, one for Herend, hoping to find a fishnet cat, and one for silver teacups, this is the first time I have been shown anything both desirable and local enough to be practical to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>THis is not a heap of silver for a lot less than scrap price, the saucers only weigh 18 grams each, just under 4 ounces the lot, and I am guessing the cups weigh about the&nbsp; same. Not that I am thinking of scrapping them, but it is nice to know I&#039;m a few bob ahead just on the metal value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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