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I am looking for some additional info. Age for exmple.
As for all of my items, I am not here to sell them, but to share.
As you can see, most of it is or was very dirty.
We have quiet some more nice stuff..
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WalletsA wallet, which had once been a name for a kind of sack, is a flat containe…
Art Nouveau Sterling SilverIn the 1880s and 1890s, a new style spread across Europe and the United Sta…
Is there a mark lurking on the press button mechanism, a little crescent?
Hi Vetraio!
It acutally has yes. But it is too tiny for me to descript ;)
Oh it says LP ACCA or AKKA.. ;)
Alpaca is a German expression for silver plate.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-alpaca-silver.htm