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ajlewisbrookes Posts: 5 |
posted 06-27-2007 01:20 PM
  
[26-1435] This really belongs in the Silver Stories Forum but I am still a newby and can only post here. This story concerns the hilarious threads on bad E-Bay descriptions.
Please pick me up off the floor!!!!!!! IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 06-27-2007 05:22 PM
That's a good one. Some of us get so jaded we forget to see the humor in these. Glad to see you are perusing the archives, and thanks for posting it. IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 252 |
posted 06-27-2007 10:10 PM
Ebay is constantly a source of amusement. I collect airline flatware (as a sideline) -here: as read in an airline flatware listing: "You know how these old people are like - magpies - they see a menu in a restaurant and *poof* it's hidden in a purse or jacket - the same thing used to happen to ashtrays and coasters and airline flatware. This set was victim of one such elderly person." IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 06-28-2007 05:58 PM
Today, I saw on Ebay some flatware attributed to ONC, but only one piece was ours. Do these sellers ever turn the pieces over and look at the name of the maker on the back? Or are they just trying to scam people? It would be laughable if it wasn't so deceptive. IP: Logged |
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feniangirl Posts: 36 |
posted 07-04-2007 11:11 AM
LOL. Though many are deceptive, some are just barking mad. My all time favorite was the seller who stated the piece was "unmarked, but I am sure it's silver, because it smells like silver." Then there was, "This is a group of five (5) silver spoons, most from the late 1800s. Each is in excellent condition. Please note that none have any rust marks." And a real honest seller: "This is an early spoon with marks. There is some dings in the spoon see pitchers . And in response to some information sent: Thank you for your information.I don't know a lot if hardly anything about silver marks." IP: Logged |
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argentum1 Posts: 602 |
posted 07-04-2007 11:30 AM
Shortly after eBay got started, someone placed an auction for a P. Revere spoon. It had the appearance of an early spoon. But upon looking at the mark I thought it must have been made when he was just getting his start. He was so poor he had to use a nail or some pointed objet to scratch his name onto the spoon. I like to think the dealer was just plain dumb. IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 07-04-2007 01:17 PM
quote: Or dumb like a fox . . . . IP: Logged |
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witzhall Posts: 124 |
posted 07-05-2007 05:40 PM
. . . and today on eBay I saw an early fiddle teaspoon with a very well-used look described thus: Bowl of spoon has original marks from being hand hammered. It's a never-ending source of amusement! [This message has been edited by witzhall (edited 07-05-2007).] IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 07-05-2007 06:31 PM
Nothing to do with silver but, at least for me, to do with hiliarity on the previously mentioned auction site. There was a cartoon out a few years ago that showed a refrigerator I believe and had a caption that read something like this " I cleaned the refrigerator out this morning and put the leftovers on eBay; there up to $35.00 tonight!" IP: Logged |
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OWK Posts: 69 |
posted 08-10-2007 09:02 AM
LOL. Though many are deceptive, some are just barking mad. My all time favorite was the seller who stated the piece was "unmarked, but I am sure it's silver, because it smells like silver." ________________________________________ This one isn't as funny as you might think. I can tell silver from plate by the smell. IP: Logged |
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doc Posts: 728 |
posted 08-14-2007 05:46 PM
I was just perusing a popular Internet auction site and found a posting for an "Early Southern Solid Coin Spoon/teaspoon-Vermont". Someone needs a lesson in geography!!! Admittedly, the maker is from Brattleboro, which is in southern Vermont! IP: Logged |
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Sheila Posts: 8 |
posted 09-05-2007 02:50 PM
I have to agree, I can pick out a Solid Gold watch case in a minute, and my grandfather, who collected Silver, knew Sterling by the smell too. He was always correct! I have little experience with silver smells though. Sounds weird, but I know many watch collectors that can tell the difference between Sterling and Coin Silver. That one really got to me. IP: Logged |
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silverhunter Posts: 704 |
posted 09-05-2007 03:47 PM
I can read but I don't have a silver library. IP: Logged |
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silverhunter Posts: 704 |
posted 09-05-2007 04:07 PM
My father should give my mother a diamond with my birth, his name was Neil.etc. I only smell polish wax/cream, I'm sorry. IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 09-05-2007 10:50 PM
quote: Silver by its smell doesn't make much sense to me because whether an object is solid silver or silver plated wouldn't make any difference since the surface layer of both is silver. Telling sterling from coin is an even greater perplexity for me since the difference between the two is only a very tiny difference in the amount of silver in the alloy. Sterling is 92.5% silver while coin is indeterminate but usually in the range of 90% silver but sometimes a bit more or less. Also, silver and high silver alloys are pretty stable and do not volatize, evaporate, or sublime which would be necessary for them to give off odors. Odors are molecules given off by something into the air that are detected by the nose as you breathe in air. I'm thinking what some people might be smelling could be silver polish.
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 09-06-2007 08:17 AM
I'm with you Kimo. IP: Logged |
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argentum1 Posts: 602 |
posted 09-06-2007 10:25 AM
The smells are most likely Silver Sulfide and some oxidative compound of copper. I would imagine the earlier the item the greater the amounts of copper compounds as a result of firescale being present. However I have not smelled what is referred to as 'silver smell' on the very few colonial pieces I had the opportunity to handle(with gloved hands). Add to the above that most silver polishes used by many people just plain stinks. Excuse the use of the highly technical term 'stink'. IP: Logged |
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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 |
posted 10-10-2007 11:38 PM
For me this is one of the funniest ever --- now I've really seen it all on eBay .... IP: Logged |
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silverhunter Posts: 704 |
posted 10-11-2007 03:19 AM
In my fantasy I see this man in the Plaza at the bar and offering valuabel coins from 15th and 16th century made from plaza silverplated from a very big eggcup it was a special offer. With swet I awaked and I dreamed I had bought some. But on snip you hardly find 15 th and 16 th centurie silver coins. IP: Logged |
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doc Posts: 728 |
posted 10-11-2007 06:22 AM
I am so glad you reposted that thread, Scott-it makes me laugh! I have a place in Western Maine and I was just in Pa's Trading Post last Sunday afternoon, the home of the alleged silver expert of Western Maine! Alas, no 15th or 16th century South American silver to be found there. IP: Logged |
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