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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 3900043, member: 5515&quot;]Hello again everyone! So....for those not quite understanding the back and forth discussion between me and [USER=111]@DragonflyWink[/USER], this was a bit of a game, but I wanted to present it in a different way than I usually do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s start with a revelation: one of these patterns is community silverplate, and one of these patterns is <u>definitely not community silverplate</u>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to present my post as if I was looking for advice on community silverplate, because this is exactly how the listing appeared to everyone when listed by the seller. The seller essentially said &quot;hey everyone, I have some community silverplate for sale, who wants it?&quot;....And for most of us buyers, that&#039;s all that&#039;s needed to convince our mind that there&#039;s nothing of value in the photographs. But here&#039;s the great news: we can train our brains to question the information in front of us. Sometimes what the seller says is <u>very relevant</u>, and sometimes what the seller says is <u>very irrelevant</u>. In this case, the pattern on the left is not community <u>and is definitely not silverplate</u>. </p><p><br /></p><p>So how can you figure out what it is? I&#039;m quite sure that [USER=111]@DragonflyWink[/USER] recognized the pattern and maker immediately from her wealth of stored mental silver knowledge. We aren&#039;t all as fortunate to have that silver rolodex, so always start by evaluating the tone/quality/hints/clues of pieces and then go research. For me, when I saw the listing, my mind recognized the pattern immediately, I just couldn&#039;t remember the name. That didn&#039;t stop me from starting a discussion on purchasing the set; I simply went and found the maker/pattern name as the discussion continued with the seller (often times there&#039;s a limited time to buy items like this before someone else also solves the puzzle). Here&#039;s what I ended up with (all polished...and [USER=13605]@Lark[/USER] they were a bear to polish but oh do I love to polish):</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Reed &amp; Barton Francis I 58 piece Flatware Set, approximately 2500 grams of sterling silver!!</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]320962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320963[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320965[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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