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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 1809499, member: 5515&quot;]Good evening everyone!</p><p><br /></p><p>I really appreciate the discussion from the last two posts, and I&#039;m excited to see what you think of the item I&#039;m revealing tonight (and the last one tomorrow too of course). I&#039;ll do my best to get the terminology correct, what we have next is a centerpiece bowl?? Well this one has a bit of a story to it. When I purchased these items, the marks for the other three items were very easy to find and identify. But this one I was legitimately stumped for probably an hour when I got home. I felt I had looked in all the possible locations.....searching on the bottom is easily the first place to go, then the center of the bowl, the edge of the base, perhaps tucked into a pattern somewhere and I just couldn&#039;t find anything. I was planning to give up and just do an acid test and then I spotted the little guys! They marked this bowl on the inside of the ornate edge (the part that goes around the top edge) and the marks were well disguised since the entire piece was tarnished.</p><p><br /></p><p>Admittedly, this one is a polishing work and progress, and shall remain so for quite some time. I hope that the work I put into the inside of the bowl looks nice, but the rest is just going to be a patient process getting into the outer scalloped edge. I don&#039;t mind, I certainly have time and patience, but I couldn&#039;t wait to show you the entire collection. Some more details:</p><p><br /></p><p>This bowl measures 21 1/2&quot; from the handles, 12&quot; in width and stands 8 1/2&quot; tall. It is stamped 800 (silver fineness not coin) one symbol i&#039;m not familiar with, the AL mark and ITALY. Total weight of this monster is 5 pounds 9 ounces! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]240706[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240707[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240708[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240709[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240710[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240711[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240712[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240713[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]240714[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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