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seaduck Posts: 350 |
posted 02-25-2007 06:39 PM
  
[26-1364] This is somewhat related to my recent yikes! what's this weird stain? post....While examining the WS under really bright light, I've just discovered that numbers are scratched into the base of two of the pots, but not all of the pieces in the service. I imagine that these are simply Crichton serial or manufacturer's numbers, but on the off chance that someone here knows more.... One says:
The other is:
Very hard to read, almost lost in the surface scratches.... Thanks! IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 02-25-2007 07:38 PM
If the numbers are scratched in they most likely are inventory numbers of one of the previous owners. Sometime called security numbers as the intent was to use the numbers for identification in case of theft. IP: Logged |
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seaduck Posts: 350 |
posted 02-26-2007 09:42 AM
Ah! Excellent clue, many thanks. These are family pieces and we may have old insurance inventories....I'll take a look. IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 02-26-2007 05:43 PM
Back during the late 1970s, there was a wily son of a billionaire who decided he would get even richer by cornering the silver market. His name was Nelson Bunker Hunt and he pretty much succeeded. In the process the price of silver ballooned from $5 an ounce to about $50 an ounce. Silver fever gripped the nation and people started digging out everything they owned made of silver either to hoard someplace safe or to sell for a killing. Much of the silver that was sold was sadly melted down into ingots and countless beautiful silver objects were lost to the world. Many other objects wound up getting owner's markings or inventory numbers or whatever crudely scratched on them. Some local police departments around the country even lent out carbide tipped "pens" for people to use to mark their silver heirlooms in case they were stolen since the silver content had made them so valuable. Then the balloon burst and the price of silver tumbled back down to its normal low level. It is not unusual to find scratched in inventory markings on larger silver objects from those lunacy days. [This message has been edited by Kimo (edited 02-26-2007).] IP: Logged |
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