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Message:: [QUOTE="giotto, post: 1612765, member: 13931"]Hello many thanks for all your comments about my box, I feel some comments in my opinion are way of the mark,will not say which ones ,do not want to offend any one. we all have a right to our opinions .If there are any engravers out there may be their thoughts may be interesting they may give us an idea of the skill need to do this work. I am a silver box collector,have recently been to 13 countries on a 3 1/2 month holiday,I came back with 12 different boxes (not all silver)did not see any boxes like this overseas at all (nothing close,with engraving inside as well) Purchased this one locally in Australia. I think also what we should understand is how small this box is,and how different it is looking at it with the naked eye compared to magnifying it. The marks you mentioned are not makers marks as you can see all the noses of the dragons have lines on their noses. I have had this issue before trying very hard to make (imagine) makers marks. on most cases if the mark cannot be made out under 10x magnification ,it will not be makers mark under 1000x magnification.Regard Giotto.[/QUOTE]