Better to polish silver or let it be for selling
norar_il
8 years ago
I'm talking of dresser pieces, not flatware. When my great aunts died more than 50 years ago, the family went in to clean out the house they had lived in for about 70 years. One of the things they found was wrapped carefully and hidden beneath a wardrobe -- sterling silver dresser stuff. My mother got several pieces and then I got them. I'm trying to clean out drawers and cupboards and am planning to sell most of them -- button hooks, sweet jars with sterling lids, a mirror, hair brush, etc. The piece here is something my father always called "the belly button brush". I'd like to add to the question about polishing by asking what the heck it really is. It is a tad over 4 inches long.
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8 years agoThe little round brush has very stiff bristles. The mark on it looks like a deer head facing left then says 70. The ones I think really belong together are: the regular hair brush has lion, anchor and maybe a G then C 632. The long brush has the other hallmarks then C636. The mirror has hallmarks then number C642, The whisk hallmark G 640. Finally the jar has lion, anchor and ? I've taken the most close up I can of that hallmark.
All the pieces I have.
The ones I'm pretty sure belong together -- all but the whisk thingie are monogramed the same
The three hallmarks and the best I can do from the jar lid. Any ideas would be deeply appreciated.
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