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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 365198, member: 25"]A picture of the underside of the base should show if the main body is loaded or not. Usually if the foot is pitch or resin filled there will be a black cardboard cover. I have found filled feet or bases with a disc of lead to add extra weight and hence stability.</p><p>Loaded bases meant more stability for the piece, and more strength for the foot. It would also mean knocking about 100 grams off the actual silver weight. There could also be a steel rod extending from the base up into the lowest part of the main trumpet, this also being filled. This gives strength to a construction that if all silver would be quite weak. Early pieces were made by casting, and were solid and strong enough to stand alone, the use of thinner sheet silver to construct objects made for fancier designs at lower prices but had a few shortcomings in the way of fragility.</p><p>It looks as if there are three side pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>For other opinions on value search sterling silver epergne for sold items. Bearing in mind the condition I'd pay about £250 for that, other opinions may differ.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 365198, member: 25"]A picture of the underside of the base should show if the main body is loaded or not. Usually if the foot is pitch or resin filled there will be a black cardboard cover. I have found filled feet or bases with a disc of lead to add extra weight and hence stability. Loaded bases meant more stability for the piece, and more strength for the foot. It would also mean knocking about 100 grams off the actual silver weight. There could also be a steel rod extending from the base up into the lowest part of the main trumpet, this also being filled. This gives strength to a construction that if all silver would be quite weak. Early pieces were made by casting, and were solid and strong enough to stand alone, the use of thinner sheet silver to construct objects made for fancier designs at lower prices but had a few shortcomings in the way of fragility. It looks as if there are three side pieces. For other opinions on value search sterling silver epergne for sold items. Bearing in mind the condition I'd pay about £250 for that, other opinions may differ.[/QUOTE]
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