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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 121646, member: 85&quot;]Looks like a piece of lost wax casting.&nbsp; Whether by an actual artisan or a high school student back in the 60s.</p><p><br /></p><p>You make an item out of wax, cast it in plaster, put it in a kiln to melt the wax, put the mold in a centrifuge, melt your silver and let it spin into the mold.</p><p><br /></p><p>My high school had a jewelry class.&nbsp; We did things like this back then.</p><p>You could buy silver to melt, or do what I did, go to junk stores and buy bent up old silver and melt it.</p><p>So of course things weren&#039;t marked silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Adding:</p><p>Looking again at the pictures.&nbsp; On the back you can see little balls which would have been air bubbles in the mold.&nbsp;&nbsp; An artisan would have cleaned them up better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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