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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MrNate, post: 3896782, member: 5515&quot;]Thank you all very much for the guesses; I was hoping there would be someone in the group that had the answer I was looking for, but they are either staying silent or no one else pieced it together yet. For all the people that stated there&#039;s a lot of silverplate in the listing, you are absolutely correct. One of the greatest challenges is to discern between &#039;good and junk&#039; and it often requires you to tune your mind to subtle clues. Now I&#039;m not claiming I&#039;m perfect at this (far from it I&#039;m sure), but when I looked at the images of the listing, these pieces looked quite different from the rest of the lot:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]320802[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the tone looks different? Notice the bowl of the spoon looks a little softer/hazier? Notice that wonderful tarnish in all the cracks and crevices of the pattern?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if I truly believe this pattern could be different from the rest, I have a reason to research deeper. The buyer stated this is a silverplate listing, so I know that asking for additional information may cause me to lose the deal. So I start looking to match the pattern to a known sterling manufacturer; this way if I match it to a sterling pattern, this becomes much less of a gamble and more like a known purchase. After a short search, I matched it! This is &#039;Afterglow&#039; by Oneida, made in sterling silver in 1956. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I ended up getting, there were a few extra sterling spoons by Gorham that were unexpected in the group:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]320803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320804[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320805[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320807[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]320808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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