/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>56181804
>Quite fitting and great work frogbro!
Thx Scrapfren. It shouldn't be too hard to sell them a tiny bit above spot, it's from Christofle, probably the most well-known luxury brand for tableware in France, alongside Puiforcat.
It's them who introduced electroplating in France, and were supplying most royal courts of Europe in silverware.
>The company became famous after Emperor Napoleon III ordered a 4,000-piece service
>and to be solicited by foreign sovereigns such as the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, the Tsar of Russia, the German Kaiser, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofle

They then started to target a larger public during the XXth c. by making more affordable pieces for the high end middle class. But depending on how old is the set, it could fetch a pretty comfy premium, especially if it's mid-XIXth c., i'll have to dig on that.

> I spent several hours today sorting through some big boxes of silverplate and jewelry I've accumulated
Is it the left over from when you order lots who contain both silverplate and silver, but you only are interested in the silver?

> about a half kilo of amateur jewelry-maker bits which aren't marked but seem like good sterling
I got this issue too, especially with religious medals and pendants, for some reason a good chunk of those aren't marked.
Something peculiar too is i've got complete sets where not all the pieces have hallmarks. It's pretty evident they all are in silver, but somehow here and there the customs forgot to stamp one or two pieces from the set. I've a 25 liquor goblets set + silver platter like this, only 23 have hallmarks. Same for few pocket watches. Did it already happen to you?

> plus a 4.8g golden tie clip with a faint hallmark that really looks like "14K" which is exciting
That's amazing! Will you acid test it to determine if it's indeed gold?

Not truly PM related, but picrel showed up today. From a guy who emptied a dead boomie's house in Normandy. It's a ZF41/1, the sniper scope for the Kar98K during ww2, in perfect working condition.
And i got an extra surprise when i opened it. See the "565" number on the right? It's the serial N°. 100k of those were made during the war, and i lucked up on a very early one. Couldn't find one with a lower n° online.