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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 8666, member: 181&quot;]My apologies, Baker and thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I have done the research, but that research hasn&#039;t turned up very much in regards to &quot;silver&quot; bearing these arms. The two links below show later period silver bearing the 6th Duke&#039;s arms, but I&#039;ve found nothing from the 18th C. bearing the 4th Duke&#039;s. The only items I could find with the 4th Duke&#039;s arms were guns, glassware, furniture etc. and all of those items sold for very high dollar amounts at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14240/lot/201/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14240/lot/201/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14240/lot/201/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.spencermarks.com/html/e125.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.spencermarks.com/html/e125.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.spencermarks.com/html/e125.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Moreotherstuff, that is one fine looking piece of glass. Very nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>Sharona, thank you! My jeweler pretty much gave me the hook-up. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I was very pleased with his offer for the bracelet and glad that he&#039;s been so honest over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shi, that is one lovely fork and congrats on the sale. That dealer&#039;s offer of $2K was hard to turn down.....especially as I said, whatever these items sell for at this point is just money in the bank/pure profit. But at the same time, I don&#039;t want to make a major mistake by just taking any old offers because we&#039;re at that &quot;in the black stage&quot;. Besides, the offer he gave for the one piece I sold him for nearly $800 was pretty much a low baller, but I took it any way. Not because I really wanted to, but because I don&#039;t think there&#039;s many buyers/collectors out there for that particular piece as opposed to the beakers. Plus, I only had $10 invested into that item. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t believe this dealer is or was out to stiff me, but he&#039;s in it to make money and that&#039;s fine, I don&#039;t have a problem with that. The problem I have is he knows more than I about these items and when it comes to antique silver, especially since this appears to be the only field he deals in...silver!&nbsp; The one thing that did catch my eye about him is, he never asked the weight. Never said, &quot;how much do they each weigh?&quot; Just presented his offer after viewing the images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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