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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2858114, member: 111&quot;]Eh, I&#039;m no expert on Russian silver, a complicated field <i>filled with fakes</i>, much of it, like this piece, not even well done (or just truly bizarre, like the musical &#039;Moses&#039; box with torah pointer posted a while ago by the OP).&nbsp; Don&#039;t have the time or inclination right now to go into the issues here, and really see no point in delving any further than the immediately definitive indication of fakery,&nbsp; that the center mark, the notched dvoinik assay mark, was not instituted until 1882, and it would not have been used with the dated &#039;initials&#039; assay mark (plus, the one here is dated 28 years prior to use of the dvoinik).</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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