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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2225068, member: 111&quot;]Have been polishing silver salts and salt spoons for decades, that looks like salt pitting to me - likely someone used it regularly for salted nuts, leaving them in there for extended periods...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This shows some spots of fairly deep pitting on your piece:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]255134[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some salt spoons with similar pitting - these have been polished many times and some of the pitting removed with an old trick my silver mentor taught me (not useful for your piece).&nbsp; Some only had a few small spots, others had areas where the salt even left crystalline shapes, and some still had green crustation from the salt - the grape pattern spoon and the one to the right of it were so pitted that the bowls were left with an orange-peel texture front and back.&nbsp; There was valid reason for gilding and glass liners in the majority of silver salts (pitting will penetrate the gilding too) - and it was the reason that it was recommended to remove the salt from silver at end of day, replacing it the next...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]255140[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]255141[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, if mine, would polish it as best I could and just live with the pitting - a <i>good </i>silver restorer could buff most of it out with little damage to the monogram, but I wouldn&#039;t let just any idiot with a buffing wheel get near it...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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