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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 4185648, member: 5515&quot;]Here&#039;s the clues I noticed (see picture below for the number of the clue):</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue #1: There&#039;s a few misc. spoons in the lot like this one that scream of sterling silver. My eyes were drawn to this spoon first when I saw the listing, and I knew there was a good chance there was at least <u>some</u> sterling in the group.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue #2: Subtle, but very important is these little dainty serving pieces. My experience has been more of the silverplate flatware sets offer more generic/large service pieces, and more of the sterling sets offer very specific/small/unique serving pieces. My eyes were drawn to the nice design of the spaces/holes on these service pieces, indicating this might be a high quality set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue #3: The cloth bags are definitely a clue for me, because I could be looking at two sets, or I could be looking at a set where the original owner ran out of space in the cloth bags and bought a wood case for extra storage. It&#039;s also a mix/match set of cloth, so perhaps this person was a collector of more than one set. I even consider it a clue that they actually organized the pieces separately into the cloth (all the salad forks together all the knives together etc), just another indicator that perhaps someone was treating this set with care.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue #4: Just <u>look at that soft glowing tone</u> in the bowls of the spoons and the gentle creeping specks of tarnish around the edges. Wavy, glowing, speckles of tarnish, all great signs (oh and take a look at the deep tarnish in the crevices of the handles of those two large serving spoons).</p><p><br /></p><p>Clue #5: Notice what you don&#039;t see here? You don&#039;t see the knives...I know that isn&#039;t a huge clue, but it&#039;s a potential indicator that this wood case was just something extra for storage, and not how the original owner actually wanted to store the set. Just a hint that we can perhaps discredit the fact that it&#039;s an 1847 rogers case.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334398[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Those were the best clues I could find. My genuine hope is when I find flatware&nbsp; sets they don&#039;t end up getting scrapped, here&#039;s how the polishing is turning out so far, there&#039;s definitely still some beauty in this set that I hope someone finds use for after I&#039;m done with them:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334395[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334396[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334397[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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