Whether you enjoy Antiquing/Collecting for fun, investment purposes, or for sale if you have some collecting secrets to share I welcome you here!  The following is something I learned about recently and wanted to share the news. The news involves being able to identify genuine Sterling Silver. For those of you who are experienced collectors—correct me if I’m wrong. I learned is that there are three different ways to identify pure Sterling Silver, number one is pretty obvious:

Look for the name Sterling Silver on the silverware or silver piece.

Two: genuine Sterling Silver is also identified by the number 925 stamped on the silver piece, and

Three: Sterling Silverware can be identified by a Lion Symbol stamped on the silver piece (with the lion looking to the left).

If you’re like me I really don’t have a particular antique or collectible I’m searching for, like silverware, but it helps to know the above signs just in case. By the way the number 925, as a Sterling Silver identifier, stands for Nine-hundred twenty-five parts per-thousand pure silver and worth holding on to, if you can find it.