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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 139330, member: 44&quot;]Now that I have been up awhile, I&#039;ve taken another look at these Egyptian marks. To be honest, I am now not entirely sure that silver purity mark for .900 is for *Cairo.* The marks for Cairo, Alexander and Tanta are so very very similar to these old eyes. I jumped to the conclusion it was Cairo for that is the one I usually see. I got Tardy out a couple of minutes ago in hopes he had better illustations of the city marks on the quality/purity punch. They were not much better. Another thing, purity marks usually only have the number and one dot/diamond after it. Yours has 2 dots/diamonds. Looking around the web I have seen a couple of others with 2 dots. Here is an example on the 925-1000 forum:</p><p><a href="http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14358" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14358" rel="nofollow">http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14358</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A good chance yours never had the kitty or lotus. Quoting Tardy:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Locally made silverware must bear three marks on the main parts of all articles able to take them. Accessories need bear only the quality mark and the date; smaller articles only the quality mark.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone might have thought this was an accessory??? Anyways have seen on other silver forums that it isn&#039;t unusual for the state silver mark, cat/lotus, to be missing. Another thing with the date on this in Arabic means it dates after 1940 or 1946.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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