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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 348746, member: 25&quot;]If you are not familiar with the trade term &#039;clobbered&#039;, it means an early plain style piece that has, in the High Victorian period around the 1860s - 70s, been decorated to suit the desired style of the day. </p><p>The decorator has gone balls out crazy with this set. </p><p>How appealing the style is is a matter of choice now. Purists would shun it because it is not original, but personal taste might prefer the over the top look. It certainly looks opulent and the amount of work involved is impressive. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays the silver market would rate the value as less than its&nbsp; value as an original Georgian set. I would expect the unclobberd set to fetch two or three times its metal value in an auction, whereas I&#039;d be expecting to pay not much over silver value for this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Retail prices for silver from specialist silver dealers tend to double or more what you can buy at auction for. They do like to make a living.</p><p><br /></p><p>My comments are based on the UK silver market, things may be entirely different wherever you are. It looks like there are about 60 to 70 ounces there. A good chunk of change just for the scrap value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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