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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 53957, member: 111&quot;]Don&#039;t usually comment on Russian or supposedly Russian silver, because I&#039;m not at all qualified in the area and very few people are - but this piece is Soviet, and though definitely still no expert in any way, can tell you that the &#039;Metal&#039; mark indicates that it&#039;s a non-precious metal, and the other is a factory mark, with the &#039;5&#039; indicating the year of production.&nbsp; Those dated marks started in the mid &#039;50s, and I&#039;ve never fully understood how they distinguish the decades, but there is a Cyrillic-language book on Soviet marks that is apparently quite helpful.&nbsp; If I recall correctly, the numbers as a suffix were used in the 1950s-60s, as a prefix in the &#039;70s, with added punctuation for the different decades after that - this piece would have been produced in either 1955 or 1965.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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