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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9999289, member: 10944"]I didn’t say it was an assay mark. Just that it often refers to sterling silver. Typo that it would “interesting” if it were marked for sterling despite being assayed at .800. I’m sure you’ve seen your share of pieces that were assayed for sterling silver but also marked “sterling”, “ster” “silver” or “SS”. I’ve also seen pieces marked with a decimal mark above .925 but marked “sterling”. I then went on to say that it may not refer to sterling in this case at all. My point was that sometimes that is what SS means on a piece of silver, if the poster didn’t already know that.</p><p><br /></p><p>edit: it had already been clearly established that it bore .800 assay marks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9999289, member: 10944"]I didn’t say it was an assay mark. Just that it often refers to sterling silver. Typo that it would “interesting” if it were marked for sterling despite being assayed at .800. I’m sure you’ve seen your share of pieces that were assayed for sterling silver but also marked “sterling”, “ster” “silver” or “SS”. I’ve also seen pieces marked with a decimal mark above .925 but marked “sterling”. I then went on to say that it may not refer to sterling in this case at all. My point was that sometimes that is what SS means on a piece of silver, if the poster didn’t already know that. edit: it had already been clearly established that it bore .800 assay marks.[/QUOTE]
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