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<p>[QUOTE="Chon, post: 92474, member: 1084"]You're all awesome! Thanks for the input!!! Very much appreciated! ;-)</p><p>Rubbed with baking soda a bit and it does brighten it up to a clean shiny silver!</p><p>Maybe this will help...there are minimal spacing in between the letters, and assuming the "V"s are "U"s, here's how it reads...again, not sure of the start, so I'll do my best...</p><p>JUANADELLAMASPARAELCULTODIVINOA(?)704ESTEBRASEROLOIZOPORSUDEVOZIOND.</p><p>the (?) is what looks like roman numeral for 2...like a double capital I, but not like the other I's in the script. Could also be a 1 before the 704 to make the year 1704? </p><p>Could JUANADELLAMAS be JUANA DEL AMAS? The second L in the DELL is superscript, or above the rest of the letters. same with the A before JUANA, which could mean (as Cheryl pointed out) Dona?</p><p>Did anyone notice what looks to be lotus flowers and asterisks/stars etched on the top of the bowl? any ideas on those markings?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Chon, post: 92474, member: 1084"]You're all awesome! Thanks for the input!!! Very much appreciated! ;-) Rubbed with baking soda a bit and it does brighten it up to a clean shiny silver! Maybe this will help...there are minimal spacing in between the letters, and assuming the "V"s are "U"s, here's how it reads...again, not sure of the start, so I'll do my best... JUANADELLAMASPARAELCULTODIVINOA(?)704ESTEBRASEROLOIZOPORSUDEVOZIOND. the (?) is what looks like roman numeral for 2...like a double capital I, but not like the other I's in the script. Could also be a 1 before the 704 to make the year 1704? Could JUANADELLAMAS be JUANA DEL AMAS? The second L in the DELL is superscript, or above the rest of the letters. same with the A before JUANA, which could mean (as Cheryl pointed out) Dona? Did anyone notice what looks to be lotus flowers and asterisks/stars etched on the top of the bowl? any ideas on those markings?[/QUOTE]
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