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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10263291, member: 10944"]That’s a good point. That said I’ve actually had a good amount of larger Egyptian pieces. Someone on ebay years ago got into the collection of an oil big wig from the 70s/80s. They had a ton of Egyptian silver. Most presentation pieces. Silver price was low and Egyptian silver wasn’t sterling so wasn’t showing up in most searches. Most people also don’t know Egyptian silver/hallmarks so the ones that did see it mostly avoided it anyways it seemed. I won a bunch of it. I actually won an auction for a massive tray after the first batch had been delivered. Won it nicely below melt. Silver shot way up in a days time before they had shipped the tray. They found an excuse to cancel the sale rather than take an L on the big gap between paid price and melt. I was furious. Since I had bought a at least a dozen items from them I left about a dozen negative feedbacks. Kinda crappy and vindictive of me I guess. They somehow got eBay to take all my feedback down. I can’t get one negative feedback deleted these days when it’s clearly based on dishonest claims. They must talk a good game. That was when you could still get a rep on the phone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course I also don’t polish my silver well usually. Maybe there was a clear set of hallmarks under all that tarnish somewhere. This set is particularly crisp though. I did just get two small delicate jewelry pieces. One gold and one silver. Those are darn hard to make out, you’re right there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 10263291, member: 10944"]That’s a good point. That said I’ve actually had a good amount of larger Egyptian pieces. Someone on ebay years ago got into the collection of an oil big wig from the 70s/80s. They had a ton of Egyptian silver. Most presentation pieces. Silver price was low and Egyptian silver wasn’t sterling so wasn’t showing up in most searches. Most people also don’t know Egyptian silver/hallmarks so the ones that did see it mostly avoided it anyways it seemed. I won a bunch of it. I actually won an auction for a massive tray after the first batch had been delivered. Won it nicely below melt. Silver shot way up in a days time before they had shipped the tray. They found an excuse to cancel the sale rather than take an L on the big gap between paid price and melt. I was furious. Since I had bought a at least a dozen items from them I left about a dozen negative feedbacks. Kinda crappy and vindictive of me I guess. They somehow got eBay to take all my feedback down. I can’t get one negative feedback deleted these days when it’s clearly based on dishonest claims. They must talk a good game. That was when you could still get a rep on the phone. Of course I also don’t polish my silver well usually. Maybe there was a clear set of hallmarks under all that tarnish somewhere. This set is particularly crisp though. I did just get two small delicate jewelry pieces. One gold and one silver. Those are darn hard to make out, you’re right there.[/QUOTE]
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