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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 3840753, member: 5515"]Awesome responses from everyone, and even though I'm sharing my insights please continue to share how you figured it out for those who played. So....say_it_slowly hit the nail on the head for the pattern. I had a similar experience; I didn't remember the pattern name, but from searching a lot I seemed to recall it was a Wallace pattern. So, for those interested in a pro tip, here it goes. Sterlingflatwarefasions website is one of the best sites for trying to identify sterling silver patterns and here's why. The way the website is set up with only sterling patterns makes it ideal to use as a search tool. If you haven't used that website, please check it out here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/1Pattern.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/1Pattern.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/1Pattern.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>To illustrate how valuable this method is, I actually managed to find and purchase another sterling silver flatware set today by pattern matching. I'll get photos up tomorrow or the next day after I confirm the seller has shipped the set. Here's the photos as promised of todays game, everything in the photos are just the sterling items I got from the group. Total sterling weight is approximately 1875 grams (still working on polishing, you can see the teaspoons are done):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]318576[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318577[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318578[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318579[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318580[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 3840753, member: 5515"]Awesome responses from everyone, and even though I'm sharing my insights please continue to share how you figured it out for those who played. So....say_it_slowly hit the nail on the head for the pattern. I had a similar experience; I didn't remember the pattern name, but from searching a lot I seemed to recall it was a Wallace pattern. So, for those interested in a pro tip, here it goes. Sterlingflatwarefasions website is one of the best sites for trying to identify sterling silver patterns and here's why. The way the website is set up with only sterling patterns makes it ideal to use as a search tool. If you haven't used that website, please check it out here: [URL]https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/1Pattern.html[/URL] To illustrate how valuable this method is, I actually managed to find and purchase another sterling silver flatware set today by pattern matching. I'll get photos up tomorrow or the next day after I confirm the seller has shipped the set. Here's the photos as promised of todays game, everything in the photos are just the sterling items I got from the group. Total sterling weight is approximately 1875 grams (still working on polishing, you can see the teaspoons are done): [ATTACH=full]318576[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318577[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318578[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318579[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]318580[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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