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So I scored another large hoard of silver at the dump today. Unfortunately someone else managed to grab a large part of the hoard before I salvaged the items pictured below - the items I saw this other person get away with included about 7 pieces, mostly common small sterling sugar/creamer bowls, but the joke is on them as I managed to score the rarer pieces which were mostly not stamped Sterling and so must have been disregarded as junk.
Included in my hoard are: 2 weighted Sterling candle holders, 1 Sterling Gorham bowl, 1 broken Sterling footed candy dish (missing its base and silver markings), 1 3rd standard 80% silver Polish salt bowl, 1 "800" 80% silver German basket centerpiece with crystal insert, and the best find of the day: 1 Zeewoo Shanghai import silver wine cup (Sterling stamp written in Chinese).
This is one of my favorites finds for the year, it is a very rare sterling silver cup made by the Zeewo silver company in Shanghai. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Chinese Republic (1870-1930), prior to the Communist revolution, Zeewo was one of the primary exporters of quality Chinese silver to Great Britain and the USA before going out of business in 1930. Today it is one of the most prized silver and is extremely desirable by collectors.
This is the silver stamp on the bottom of the silver/crystal basket. It is a German mark and indicated 80% silver.
Entire hoard is over 600 grams of silver not including the weighted silver. Had I managed to score the entire hoard it would have been a Kilo at least.
I'll upload the Polish silver stamps from the salt bowl for your reference later as well. This is all I have now as I had to go to work shortly after taking these pics.
Edit: Here are the Polish silver marks from the salt bowl. To the right of the womans profile is a small '3' this is the 3rd standard of 80% the 'AP' is the maker's mark.
Included in my hoard are: 2 weighted Sterling candle holders, 1 Sterling Gorham bowl, 1 broken Sterling footed candy dish (missing its base and silver markings), 1 3rd standard 80% silver Polish salt bowl, 1 "800" 80% silver German basket centerpiece with crystal insert, and the best find of the day: 1 Zeewoo Shanghai import silver wine cup (Sterling stamp written in Chinese).
This is one of my favorites finds for the year, it is a very rare sterling silver cup made by the Zeewo silver company in Shanghai. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Chinese Republic (1870-1930), prior to the Communist revolution, Zeewo was one of the primary exporters of quality Chinese silver to Great Britain and the USA before going out of business in 1930. Today it is one of the most prized silver and is extremely desirable by collectors.
This is the silver stamp on the bottom of the silver/crystal basket. It is a German mark and indicated 80% silver.
Entire hoard is over 600 grams of silver not including the weighted silver. Had I managed to score the entire hoard it would have been a Kilo at least.
I'll upload the Polish silver stamps from the salt bowl for your reference later as well. This is all I have now as I had to go to work shortly after taking these pics.
Edit: Here are the Polish silver marks from the salt bowl. To the right of the womans profile is a small '3' this is the 3rd standard of 80% the 'AP' is the maker's mark.
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