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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 11440041, member: 76316&quot;]These 2 are part of a large tranche of similar cast or embossed scroll weights(?). I eagerly laid down good money for them based on gram weight about 30 years ago. Youthful is relative here; I was in my early 50&#039;s...but obviously deeply ignorant of Asian silver, an&#039; much too trusting of the seller. Mea Culpa.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are ~7 13/16&quot; long by ~1 5/16&quot; wide, ~3/16&quot; thick at their ends; weight is ~212 grams each. One seems to have a dragon at the RH end, the other looks to have a mythical beast resembling a stag...I&#039;m assuming zodiac creatures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their faces have an apparently similar theme which at first glance is reminiscent of a SE Asian script...but on closer examination, the lower bar (pic 1) has been mirrored along a vertical central line. The upper one shows fewer &#039;characters&#039;, but may be similarly distorted without mirroring...I simply cannot say it&#039;s meant to be meaningful text, it&#039;s so ornately foreign.</p><p><br /></p><p>To add to the anomalous details, their backs are not remotely the same; the dragon shows two apparent landscapes, both with water background, a bridge, buildings an&#039; various people, all female; it seems to be divided by the central tree. The stag shows mountains, water, geometric representations of an apparent stockade or compound within a fence an&#039; beneath 2 lines of characters a grid adjacent more geometric structures. None of these make any coherent sense to me, an&#039; given that they&#039;re both fairly heavy plate on a brass core, sold to this gullible person as solid silver, they are quite probably 100% fraudulent in every representation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll be glad to hear your candid opinions of them, as well as comments about my assumptions of their reality.</p><p>Thanks for lookin&#039;! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]543658[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543659[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543661[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543664[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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