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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 288358, member: 59"]Aha!! The star (a pentagram) is a Spanish indicator of silver fineness! The other mark would be the maker's mark, although I do not have a source for them (and can't really see what it is anyway.)</p><p><br /></p><p>See the Spain section on the page in this link. It will give you earliest year of use and minimum silver fineness.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So your decanter is most likely European.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 288358, member: 59"]Aha!! The star (a pentagram) is a Spanish indicator of silver fineness! The other mark would be the maker's mark, although I do not have a source for them (and can't really see what it is anyway.) See the Spain section on the page in this link. It will give you earliest year of use and minimum silver fineness. [URL]http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks3.html[/URL] So your decanter is most likely European.[/QUOTE]
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