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$15 Garage Sale Find

Postby MUTiger » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:16 pm

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Weighs 1110 grams.

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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby Rodebaugh » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:17 pm

Sterling?

If so......Very Nice!
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby MUTiger » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:29 pm

Rodebaugh wrote:Sterling?

If so......Very Nice!


No official markings that I can find but the legs and handles are cast and soldered on and it has a tarnish like sterling. I cannot find any places where it has been polished through plating.

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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:27 pm

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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby jasmatk » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:37 am

nice score.If I were you Id send it to scrapman1077http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10821
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby blackrabbit » Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:19 pm

Do you hit it with a magnet? Scratch an inconspicuous part and look under magnification to see the color. A lot of stuff I have seen like that has been plated.
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby scrapman1077 » Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:29 pm

The last one that I received looked just like that and was a plated piece, the legs and handles were plated pewter. Check it as blackrabbit told you, get a piece of brass and compare the internal color.
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby MUTiger » Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:09 pm

scrapman1077 wrote:The last one that I received looked just like that and was a plated piece, the legs and handles were plated pewter. Check it as blackrabbit told you, get a piece of brass and compare the internal color.


I will do that. I did hit the cutout ring portion with a magnet and it did stick. It did not stick to the handles or legs so I will give it a little filing on the bottom of a leg to check. Perhaps a paid too much.

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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby Coppercrazy » Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:46 am

that looks like a plated piece to me.the cutout ring portion is likely plated brass
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby SilverEye » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:20 pm

I've seen some very tempting pieces that I passed on because of no Sterling mark. Is there really unmarked Stirling out there?
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby Oakair » Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:25 pm

SilverEye wrote:I've seen some very tempting pieces that I passed on because of no Sterling mark. Is there really unmarked Stirling out there?


I found a goblet that was for someones anniversary in 1991....

Unmarked and sterling...1.99 for a few oz's (don't have a scale large enough to weigh it haha)
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby SilverEye » Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:48 pm

How do you know that goblet is Sterling and not plated?
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Re: $15 Garage Sale Find

Postby OtusLotus » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:36 pm

I believe that the piece you bought is silver plated....

Before you take a file and damage the piece, take a loupe, and look around all of the edges and rims.

Good luck, and I hope we are all wrong! Let us know the results!
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