So I was browsing something else and saw something that reminded me of this...if it's French plate, the marks are rectangles and not diamonds (as they'd be with sterling) and the "10" would indicate thickness (or amount? grams?) of the silver and the other would be the maker. BUT. I could be misinterpreting so I'll have to ask a silver guru to correct that.

I've always had problems copying and pasting recipes from here with the fractions showing up as question marks when I paste them into my word processor. But, I have a strange word processing system - Appleworks, which I hate, but we can't afford Microsoft Word, and I don't know that I really want it. I used to wish people would just type out the fractions, but I did that the other day at work on the pc there, which has word, and it automatically changed the typed out fraction to one that looked more, well, like a real fraction. Oh, well, the machines seem to think they know what we want better than we do. As for the recent problems, I've noticed them too, and been confused by them. I've also noticed in some threads, (not this one, though) a blank space between the last post and the box to type in our message. What's up with that? Sally

Sorry no one answered on paint forum. Sometimes it gets slow over there, I haven't been over there for a few days myself... The symbols are a key to coordination and it's based on harmony, not color categorization like lumping all the muted tones together. If you assemble all the color chips with a moon symbol, for example, they are all suppose to harmonize and look pretty together. All the flower symbol colors "go" together, etc.

I just use the asterisk. It is 94.9* right now. I figure anyone would know what I'm talking about and it's not hard for me to remember.