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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 2228148, member: 5515&quot;]Great question, it&#039;s a little less than 200 grams of silver (I weighed without the two mexico spoons since they have large attachments). </p><p><br /></p><p>When I&#039;m searching for spoon collections, I&#039;m definitely going off probabilities. When I looked at the three original photos, I start by asking myself &quot;is there any sterling in there&quot;? I try to find the <u>most obvious</u> piece, for this listing it was the pieces with cutouts on the handles. By the way, I didn&#039;t appreciate it when I was looking at the original photos, but some of the spoons are the larger 5 1/2&quot; size, I was pleasantly surprised to see that. </p><p><br /></p><p>So if I find an obvious piece I can look up and verify that&#039;s great, but really it&#039;s about the tone of the spoon, the design etc. Then I start evaluating the group, some positives you can see in the original photos:</p><p><br /></p><p>-Uneven tarnish</p><p>-Designs in the bowls</p><p>-Lots of good looking tone</p><p>-A nice cabinet display</p><p>-*a uhaul box in the background, they&#039;re likely moving and trying to lighten their load. This isn&#039;t an insignificant clue; contrast that with seeing the same photo inside an antique store, I know the entire set is very likely to be plated</p><p>-Always happy to see mexico spoons, more often they&#039;re silver</p><p><br /></p><p>So for the price of the listing, I wasn&#039;t going to bother the seller to give me more photos. It&#039;s enough data for me to take the gamble on what looked like a number of nice pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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