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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1196222, member: 2844&quot;]Very nice, dc. But not sterling, not questionable, not junk. These are perfectly fine pieces.</p><p>I think the lovely grape necklace is from southern Germany, where grape jewellery is popular. It has many fine wine growing regions, and annual wine festivals during which women often wear grape jewellery. </p><p>Italy and Portugal are also known for grape jewellery, but that is usually more detailed.</p><p>800 is one of the legal silver finenesses in Germany.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sterling is the name for a silver fineness of 925. The name is based on Medieval German coins of reliable high fineness which Germans used to trade in the Low Countries. The Dutch called the German coin &#039;pond oosterling&#039;, pound easterner, because Germany is to the east of the Low Countries.</p><p>The Brits trading with the Dutch thought the two o&#039;s were two zeros, and dropped them. The term pound sterling was born, along with the term sterling silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any other silver fineness is never called sterling. Some finenesses are higher than sterling, some are lower.</p><p>Sterling is just a name with a historic background, which includes a silly mistake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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