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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9471368, member: 111"]You don't show any marks (guessing it's by Alvin), but this piece is late 19th-early 20th century silver deposit (now typically referred to as 'silver overlay), the .999 silver was applied directly to the glass by electrodeposition, essentially very heavy silverplating. It does peel off sometimes, as with the missing chunk from your vase, but attempting to remove the glass with the silver intact would be pretty much impossible, as would be blowing a new vase into a thin fine silver cage... </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9471368, member: 111"]You don't show any marks (guessing it's by Alvin), but this piece is late 19th-early 20th century silver deposit (now typically referred to as 'silver overlay), the .999 silver was applied directly to the glass by electrodeposition, essentially very heavy silverplating. It does peel off sometimes, as with the missing chunk from your vase, but attempting to remove the glass with the silver intact would be pretty much impossible, as would be blowing a new vase into a thin fine silver cage... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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