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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4193906, member: 51"]Fascinating! Thank you for the detailed tutorial!</p><p><br /></p><p>I never find silver but by chance today at a garage sale I pulled out an older thin large bowl that was quite dented, it was in a pile marked "Silverplate" and was $2. No marks, but it was thin and bendable, so no way silverplate. Took a chance on it feeling the age and weight, it had to be sterling. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have pretty good glasses (progressives) so can often spot a mark and only when I got home and was rotating it around, found the world's tiniest mark under a bit of tarnish... Rogers Sterling. It's a total melt down because it is dented to beat the band, but should bring $100 as it weights over 5 ounces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 4193906, member: 51"]Fascinating! Thank you for the detailed tutorial! I never find silver but by chance today at a garage sale I pulled out an older thin large bowl that was quite dented, it was in a pile marked "Silverplate" and was $2. No marks, but it was thin and bendable, so no way silverplate. Took a chance on it feeling the age and weight, it had to be sterling. I have pretty good glasses (progressives) so can often spot a mark and only when I got home and was rotating it around, found the world's tiniest mark under a bit of tarnish... Rogers Sterling. It's a total melt down because it is dented to beat the band, but should bring $100 as it weights over 5 ounces.[/QUOTE]
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