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Heartwings Posts: 15 |
posted 06-06-2016 05:38 PM
  
I bought this online w/ the seller not knowing anything about it and saying it was SP. I bought it for the best reason, because I like it! I live on the Chesapeake Bay & serve a lot of seafood and like shell shaped things. It is large, more than a foot across and about 9-10" tall. It also looked to me like it might say sterling on it??? I tested it (not that I am good at that so do not take this as fact & I know heavy plate can test as silver) and it seems to test to .800-comparing the color to side by side tests with marked pieces I am sure of. It's also seems odd the handle is not a separate piece, especially on something so large. Does anyone have any idea who made this and if it is SP or sterling? I took several photos, but the markings to the left of the numbers are not very clear and, even w/ a loop, you can imagine it says most anything and I can't really say if it is all letters or there are pictorial hallmarks too. It is either very worn or was not originally put on well. To the right of the clear 4784H it looks like it says -67oz & there is also a very clear cross marking on the other support piece??? Sorry but that is the best I can do w/ the camera I have. It weighs about 2 pounds. There are also 2 different numbers hand etched into the bottom & the kind of gold area you may see on the bottom is glue residue from an old sticker that has yellowed as I have not cleaned this up yet (it has a lot of old polish dried on it). I can see no other metal showing through and it does not really look new nor does it show a lot of wear. Any help will be greatly appreciated! IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 06-07-2016 10:22 AM
It appears to be silver plated to my eye, but without holding it and looking at that faint marking more closely it would be difficult to be positive. Do you have a macro setting on your camera? It would be a setting that is marked with an icon that looks like a little tulip flower. Or could you borrow a camera from a family member or friend that has such a setting. Macro settings are pretty standard on 98 percent of the cameras being sold today. Failing that, could you try adjusting the lighting on that area so that the light source is raking across from an almost sideways to the surface source. That can create shadows and reveal details that are not always obvious with a light source that is coming directly down on the surface. Or, you mention that you have a loupe. With a bit of careful holding of the loupe in front of your lens and looking at the image on your screen you can sometimes get a very sharp close up by having your camera take a photo where the camera lens is in the same position that your eye would be if you were just using the loupe to look at the marking. One note about using acid to test for silver, it is my experience that such testing is close to useless unless you do destructive testing which is the last thing you want to do with silver. By destructive testing I mean cutting down into the metal so that you will be sure you are well past any possible plating layers so you can get the acid on the actual core metal and are testing that rather than any surface layers of silver plating. I strongly advise against such testing since it winds up permanently damaging your nice object. [This message has been edited by Kimo (edited 06-07-2016).] IP: Logged |
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