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<p>[QUOTE="April07, post: 362900, member: 7302"]I might have some ideas of the story of giving such a gift in blockade Leningrad... People were exchanging their best loved valuables for a kilo of potatoes. Probably, that person had a source of potatoes.</p><p>Concerning the absence of hallmark I found the following information: from 1917 to 1927 there was no standard of hallmarking in the USSR. That might point out that it was definitely made by 1927.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="April07, post: 362900, member: 7302"]I might have some ideas of the story of giving such a gift in blockade Leningrad... People were exchanging their best loved valuables for a kilo of potatoes. Probably, that person had a source of potatoes. Concerning the absence of hallmark I found the following information: from 1917 to 1927 there was no standard of hallmarking in the USSR. That might point out that it was definitely made by 1927.[/QUOTE]
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