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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 4426992, member: 5515&quot;]These are great observations!!! [USER=20118]@LauraGarnet02[/USER] I especially love your method for the book that is really a unique method and effective! [USER=5421]@Frank[/USER] Honestly the observation of the size of items around the vase is really significant...Of course people can have varying sizes of hands...but we can at least infer this thing isn&#039;t miniature and it isn&#039;t monstrous...These clues help a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here is what I did, and keep in mind the entire goal of what I did was just a basic confirmation that spending $50 was worth the risk. I went and searched on google, the search term was &quot;french silver vase&quot;...and all I was looking for was a vase that looked similar in design, similar in size, and therefore hopefully similar in weight. Here was the listing I settled on as my &quot;comparable item&quot;...You see, it&#039;s absolutely true that the size will be a little different, it&#039;s absolutely true that manufacturers may use wildly different amounts of silver to make something, so this is all an educated guess. But if I am searching for the right country, in a similar size, and in a similar style, I have much better odds of getting to a &quot;good enough&quot; estimate. So here is the item I found to make an estimate of the weight of my piece:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-french-silver-vase-by-risler-carre-paris-circa--212-c-c814f15ab6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-french-silver-vase-by-risler-carre-paris-circa--212-c-c814f15ab6" rel="nofollow">https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-french-silver-vase-by-risler-carre-paris-circa--212-c-c814f15ab6</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Note the auctioned vase had a weight of 360 grams. That was a number I would have been tremendously happy with. I wasn&#039;t expecting mine would be that heavy, but hopeful of course. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]378613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]378614[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]378615[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]378616[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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