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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 314536, member: 5833&quot;]Glasgow used a ramping lion as its city mark until 1964, but should have a couple of other marks with it.&nbsp; My feeling is that maker wants you to think of British sterling but that it was made elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>Addendum:&nbsp; Oh, &amp; just earlier today I was reading something about when &amp; where things have been marked &#039;925&#039; or &#039;sterling&#039;.&nbsp; Came away with the notion that a piece bearing both is not old enough to be an antique, but maybe old enough that it could have gone somewhere 925 was not yet the official standard for sterling or before it could be assumed that buyers would know the 2 are the same thing.&nbsp; 1950s - 60s?&nbsp; A better pic of the finial on the sugar bowl might assist the silver gurus in identifying it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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