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clancarroll Posts: 3 |
posted 06-11-2013 12:43 PM
  
Hello, I am new to this forum. I have acquired a large amount of miscellaneous silver pieces and have been trying to separate the silver from the silver-plate. I will save the silver pieces and they will eventually be handed down to my children. The coins and jewelry are pretty straight forward, but I'm having a little difficulty with some of the dinnerware and silverware. I have a heavy dinner fork that says "H.C. Weber & Co. 12". I have not been able to find anything on H.C. Weber and I'm not sure what the 12 stands for. My research on-line, including this website, is a little confusing. Some say the 12 means that it is .750 pure silver. Others say it has to do with the number of pieces in the set that were silver-plated. Can someone tell me with certainty? I just want to know if I can add this to the silver that will be handed down to my children or should I just add it to the pile of silver-plate? IP: Logged |
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Hose_dk Posts: 400 |
posted 06-11-2013 02:47 PM
Welcome to the forum and you can get assistance - but Pictures are a must. Its easy to see 12Lod and to seperate the 12 LOD from other. But without Picture a figure 12 cannot be attributed to 12 LOD or something else. So start posting Pictures. And please familiar yourself with forum rules. If you dont you will easy break them without intention. IP: Logged |
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clancarroll Posts: 3 |
posted 06-25-2013 11:29 AM
Thank you for your reply. Here is a link to a photo of the mark on this fork. IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 06-29-2013 01:18 PM
It is a silver plate marking, but I do not understand your plan to sort out the solid silver things and throw away the silver plate things. Some silver plated objects have a far greater artistic quality and sometimes manufacturing detail quality than some solid silver objects. If all you want is silver bullion then I guess the plan to keep only the solid silver things, but it would be a shame if your children came to appreciate artistic qualities in old things and they did not have the silver plated things that possessed such appeal. IP: Logged |
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clancarroll Posts: 3 |
posted 06-29-2013 05:35 PM
Thank you for your response. There are a few nice pieces of silver plate that I will keep. In particular, a very ornate pitcher that coincidentally has our family name engraved on it. But most of these pieces are in very poor condition and would only have value for any silver content. They are bent up, scratched, dented and most of the plating is worn off of the silver plate. Even most of the sterling pieces are pretty rough. This particular fork that I pictured is quite plain and has bent tines. It's not of much value if it's silver plate, but I couldn't identify the mark and so I wanted to make sure it wasn't sterling before I put it in with the rest of the silver plate. Thanks again for your help. IP: Logged |
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