Whether you enjoy Antiquing\/Collecting for fun, investment purposes, or for sale if you have some collecting secrets to share I welcome you here!\u00a0 The following is something I learned about recently and wanted to share the news.\u00a0The news\u00a0involves being able to identify genuine Sterling Silver. For those of you who are experienced collectors—correct me if I\u2019m wrong. I learned is that there are three different ways to identify pure Sterling Silver, number one is pretty obvious:<\/p>\n
Look for the name Sterling Silver on the silverware or silver piece.<\/p>\n
Two: genuine Sterling Silver is also identified by the number 925 stamped on the silver piece, and<\/p>\n
Three: Sterling Silverware can be identified by a Lion Symbol stamped on the silver piece\u00a0(with the lion looking to the left).<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re like me I really don\u2019t have a particular antique or collectible I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Whether you enjoy Antiquing\/Collecting for fun, investment purposes, or for sale if you have some collecting secrets to share I welcome you here!\u00a0 The following is something I learned about recently and wanted to share the news.\u00a0The news\u00a0involves being able to identify genuine Sterling Silver. For those of you who are experienced collectors—correct me if … Continue reading Three ways to identify Sterling Silver<\/span>