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Message:: [QUOTE="Snipsa, post: 29368, member: 350"]Thank you for the help everyone. Susan, I believe the gymnast is probably Japanese and not Soviet, simply looking at the casing of the mechanism (mine is plastic, whereas most of the Soviet ones seems to be metal).  But I have also found that most list them to be from the 30s to 50s.  Seems the Soviet ones are quite a bit more expensive, which makes sense  (I only paid the equivalent of about 12USD for mine). The Merrythought bear was a wonderful buy.  Bought it at a garage sale for next to nothing (something like the equivalent of 2USD).  Only found out it's Merrythought when I got home and opened the plastic it had been in.  Was a very pleasant surprise!  Especially since it now appears to have been one of their earlier bears. Thanks so much on the help on dating the Searle and Co pot Susan.  I would not have thought it to be that old.  The finial has a sort of wooden stone on top, that is slightly loose - seems it's just a bolt that's come a bit loose, will try to tighten it myself, but don't want to damage the pot.  Can't find any other markings on the pot. Is there any way to tell for sure that it's silver plate, and not something else?  Definitely not silver, and I believe it's not pewter (too much rubbing), but just wondering how I can tell if it's definitely plated. Thanks again for all the help.  I love finding interesting items, but am not an expert in the field at all![/QUOTE]