Showing posts with label sterling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sterling. Show all posts
Friday, July 1, 2011

How Much is my Silver Worth?

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So in all likelihood you got here searching for information on some silver. I do the history of silver and appraise in person. I do not appr...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Sterling Marked Macie

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  My skills at photography are pretty poor and I lack the ability and camera at this moment to show great detail. This is one of the reason...
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Sterling Compote For the Melt

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  In Shawnee Oklahoma this weekend I also picked up this weighted sterling compote.  It is marked P.S.C.O. 151 Sterling weighted. As you c...
Monday, May 10, 2010

El Unico Orange Knife

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This advertisement from The Century magazine from 1894 shows another Victorian way of dealing with the orange.  The knife is steel and is s...
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Spaulding & Company Sterling Silverware Advertisement

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This is an advertisement in The Century magazine from 1894 from Spaulding & Company Inc. for their sterling flatware. They claim addres...
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Daniel Low Salem Massachusetts.

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This is an advertisement for Daniel Low silversmith in Salem Massachusetts. It appeared in The Century magazine in 1894 and features the Sal...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Dragon Pitcher, Simpson Hall and Miller, Pride of the Collection

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  This silverplate pitcher is part of the pride of the collection. It has an inside spout shield, incised decorations and the figure of a dr...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Peter Rabbit another Super Silver Saturday Find

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  So there I am walking around the shop. I stop here and there picking up things and flipping them over looking over the mark, setting it d...
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The Messenger Cup Polished

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  This is "The Messenger Cup 1933" after being polished. It took some real rubbing and there was a bit of hot glue down inside th...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Buttonhooks

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I see a lot of buttonhooks while out and about. Sometimes they are very inexpensive, sometimes not. My dream is to find an orange peeler mar...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Souvenir Spoons

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I don't really deal with souvenir spoons. I have a few, one from Oklahoma and a few from other places. There are a few that are pretty i...

Two More Things From This Weekend

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These are two more things I picked up on my amazing silver Saturday this past weekend. The first is a sterling candle holder. No maker...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

What to do with too much silver.

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This advertisement from a 1907 Every Where magazine is something I had not see before. It is for a firm in New York -J.H. Johnston & So...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Wiliam Babcock's book from 1708 A New Touch-Stone for Gold and Silver Wares

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A quick perusal of the table of contents is well worth your time. It covers the types of items made, counterfeiting, and manufacturing techn...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

American silver, the work of seventeenth and eighteenth century silversmiths, exhibited at the Museum of fine arts, June to November, 1906

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Today should be a busy day so I will leave you one archive. This is a museum catalogue from 1906. It contains silver of a type I could never...