6 pc Coffee & Tea Service

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Mary Loesch, Jul 23, 2016.

  1. Mary Loesch

    Mary Loesch New Member

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  2. afantiques

    afantiques Well-Known Member

    With no sterling mark and numbers, it's got to be plated.

    Eatly pieces can be coin silver and unmarked, or just have a maker's name, but this looks late Victorian and therefore silverplate. If it cost maybe $100, it's plate.

    If it were sterling I estimate the silver value at around $1200
     
  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Welcome, Mary! Lovely set, but we really need to see what you described for "marks." It would also be helpful to see closer views of the decoration, including the finials on the pieces that have them.
     
  4. Mary Loesch

    Mary Loesch New Member

    The first image shows the markings on one piece. Other markings are similiar in style. Hard to get good pics. Some look like they are etched vs stamped.
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  5. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    If that entire set was sterling silver, it would be marked STERLING, STER. STG, or something similar. Or have a numerical fineness mark (800, 830, 900, 925, etc etc). Or if it's English, it'd have English hallmarks.

    AND all the marks would be identical, since it's a set.

    AF is most likely right, though. For $100 I'd say it's plate. Silverplate over nickel-silver base, most likely.
     
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  6. ola402

    ola402 Well-Known Member

    Wow! Killer set! I've been looking around the 'net researching silverplate items for myself and have come across a number of really nice plated tea sets that are selling for several hundred dollars. Wish I could provide links, but that was last week. Personally, I've been seeing a little boomlette on silverplate this past year or so. Maybe because sterling is so high. And metals are big right now.

    Just wondered if the sugar might have once had a lid, similar to the lids on the coffee and tea pots.
     
  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I doubt the sugar had a lid, Ola. See how the pieces with lids have no "rim" at the top of their lower parts? That rim on the sugar is the same type as is seen at the top opening of the cream pitcher.
     
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