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JP unregistered	posted 12-11-2001 09:41 AM Plate made by the International Silver Company. Date stamp is "53", Also stamped on the back is "96oz", two sets of numbers, "Hotel Statler", a silversmith's hallmark and "silver soldered". The plate is in fair to poor condition. does the 96oz mean 96oz of silver or ???. What do I have???. Thank You, JP IP: Logged
Brent Posts: 1507 Registered: May 99	posted 12-11-2001 10:44 AM Hi, You have a piece of hotel ware. Hotels once used heavy silverplate in their dining rooms, and some still do. Most hotel ware has the name of the hotel on it somewhere, as yours does. When you see "Silver Soldered" on a piece of silver, it is a dead giveaway that the piece is plated. Hotel ware usually has a distinctive pebbly finish on it. This is actually the result of the hotel cleaning process, where the silverplate was run through a tub of ball bearings to burnish it. I kid you not. As for the 96 oz, I'm afraid I can't tell you the answer right off the bat. It is either a mark of capacity, or a measure of how much silver went into the production of a SET of plates, not just one. I hope this helps! Brent IP: Logged
Stephen Posts: 625 Registered: Jan 2003	posted 02-05-2003 06:59 PM "53" would be the catalog number, not a date. Also, none of the silver produced in the U.S. had hallmarks. Maker's marks, trademarks, and other marks -- but not hallmarks. Pseudo hallmarks, designed to imitate hallmarks on English sterling, were used by some American manufacturers. International was not one of them. IP: Logged

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