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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 375541, member: 2844&quot;]The bands are silver, that&#039;s all I can say for now. My guess is the silver content is .800 or slightly over, so not legally recognized as silver in Britain.</p><p>I have seen the &#039;real silver&#039; mark before, but where?</p><p>For a moment I thought the &#039;real silver&#039; mark could be one of the Chinese Export Silver (CES) marks from the Republic Period, roughly first half of the 20th century, but it isn&#039;t in my research files. But I can imagine these on a Chinese silver necklace of the period. Silver bands around stone pendants are seen a lot in CES silver jewellery. The stone would typically be jade, carnelian, rosequartz, etc. These little lovelies are serpentine, which is not rated as highly, but you never know.</p><p><br /></p><p>The almost half circular shape at the bottom of the box on photo 2 looks like a repro Zuni style bear bead. It is not true Zuni (Native American).</p><p><br /></p><p>The piggies could have been made as beads in Asia and some made into silverbanded pendants somewhere else.</p><p>Maybe [USER=111]@DragonflyWink[/USER] knows the mark?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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