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<p>[QUOTE="Zinnie, post: 454603, member: 9303"]I have searched high and low for GH mark to no avail. I know you guys will pin it within seconds. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Not to outdo a recent fabulous gold buy [USER=5213]@spartcom5[/USER] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />, I 'found' this baby-size pin in a box marked $1 each (or some very affordable amount) at an estate sale decades ago. All the more valuable treasures had been separated out and put elsewhere but they somehow missed this little one. </p><p><br /></p><p>At the pay table, the cashier was very much at odds with selling it to me but I remained adamant I should get it for the price listed. I can't recall now if she asked someone or just sold it to me anyway. But I know I didn't pay more. Maybe it isn't worth all that much either to have made a big deal of it back then. But I've kept it safely put away so as not to lose it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> I need to start wearing it somehow. </p><p><br /></p><p>So any ideas on maker GH? I haven't found that to be a gold mark - one site said it was the mfg (on a ring) but nothing came of that either. And was it made in 1910? Really, I have no clue how to read these stamps. Thanks so much and Happy New Year![ATTACH=full]157148[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]157150[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]157151[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Zinnie, post: 454603, member: 9303"]I have searched high and low for GH mark to no avail. I know you guys will pin it within seconds. :) Not to outdo a recent fabulous gold buy [USER=5213]@spartcom5[/USER] :D, I 'found' this baby-size pin in a box marked $1 each (or some very affordable amount) at an estate sale decades ago. All the more valuable treasures had been separated out and put elsewhere but they somehow missed this little one. At the pay table, the cashier was very much at odds with selling it to me but I remained adamant I should get it for the price listed. I can't recall now if she asked someone or just sold it to me anyway. But I know I didn't pay more. Maybe it isn't worth all that much either to have made a big deal of it back then. But I've kept it safely put away so as not to lose it. :( I need to start wearing it somehow. So any ideas on maker GH? I haven't found that to be a gold mark - one site said it was the mfg (on a ring) but nothing came of that either. And was it made in 1910? Really, I have no clue how to read these stamps. Thanks so much and Happy New Year![ATTACH=full]157148[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]157150[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]157151[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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