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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 849169, member: 5515"]Sorry for the delay, thank you so much bakersgma for the lightning fast identification of the marks. Here’s a short story that possibly describes my never ending obsession to find silver. Today I’m on a weekend family vacation camping in a park away from home. I figured before we left for our trip I would search the local Facebook marketplace in the area we were visiting.</p><p><br /></p><p>This morning I came across a listing titled “antique tea set” with nothing else offered about the pieces. Lots of items were shown in one photo so I asked the seller to check the bottom and let me know the maker of the set.</p><p><br /></p><p>I send lots of messages like this, most of the time nothing comes back. Flash forward to later today and the seller messages me with the makers marks you saw in the first photo. Hopped in my car, drove 40 minutes away, paid $75 and went back to my family vacation. Everything else I bought was quadruple plated. Here’s the treasure:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]196104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196106[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196107[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 849169, member: 5515"]Sorry for the delay, thank you so much bakersgma for the lightning fast identification of the marks. Here’s a short story that possibly describes my never ending obsession to find silver. Today I’m on a weekend family vacation camping in a park away from home. I figured before we left for our trip I would search the local Facebook marketplace in the area we were visiting. This morning I came across a listing titled “antique tea set” with nothing else offered about the pieces. Lots of items were shown in one photo so I asked the seller to check the bottom and let me know the maker of the set. I send lots of messages like this, most of the time nothing comes back. Flash forward to later today and the seller messages me with the makers marks you saw in the first photo. Hopped in my car, drove 40 minutes away, paid $75 and went back to my family vacation. Everything else I bought was quadruple plated. Here’s the treasure: [ATTACH=full]196104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196106[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]196107[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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