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<p>[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 117544, member: 1331"]Picked these up at auction for AU$75 in a bidding war (damn it) and you should have seen the grey/black/green patina with hairs on the milk glass one. The auction photo doesn't do it justice. Decided I had to at least clean the lid and top as well as fix the hinge but left the handle with it's patina on it. Just scrubbed it lightly to clean it up. There are no hallmarks on either nor pontil marks as they both probably pressed glass so that might give an earliest date of 1840ish. I had to give it some serious elbow grease to clean the top and at no time did I see a layer of silver coming off. So I'm thinking either the layer was already gone, there never was a silver layer as it's some kind of metal imitation of silver or it's solid continental silver. Not sure what. Any ideas? As for the fiddly bits they are soldered on. The other one has a loose top and will need plaster of paris to put it back together. I'll get to that next.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the question is how old do you think they are?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers</p><p><br /></p><p>stephen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Miscstuff, post: 117544, member: 1331"]Picked these up at auction for AU$75 in a bidding war (damn it) and you should have seen the grey/black/green patina with hairs on the milk glass one. The auction photo doesn't do it justice. Decided I had to at least clean the lid and top as well as fix the hinge but left the handle with it's patina on it. Just scrubbed it lightly to clean it up. There are no hallmarks on either nor pontil marks as they both probably pressed glass so that might give an earliest date of 1840ish. I had to give it some serious elbow grease to clean the top and at no time did I see a layer of silver coming off. So I'm thinking either the layer was already gone, there never was a silver layer as it's some kind of metal imitation of silver or it's solid continental silver. Not sure what. Any ideas? As for the fiddly bits they are soldered on. The other one has a loose top and will need plaster of paris to put it back together. I'll get to that next. So the question is how old do you think they are? Cheers stephen[/QUOTE]
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