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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9784982, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, it is a Persian/Iranian silver vase. Persia is the Greek name for Iran, Iran is the Iranian name.</p><p>It desparately needs a silver cloth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours says 84 in Parsi, which means .840 silver fineness.</p><p>The mark below it is probably the maker&#039;s name.</p><p>The scratched number is not original, it may have been added by a previous owner for insurance purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a general remark: There is a lot of confusion about the Iranian 84 mark, because the mark as such was copied from the Russian 84 zolotnik mark, which stands for .875 silver. However, the Iranian 84 mark stands for .840 silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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