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Posted 9 months ago
ug3n
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Salutations !
I was hoping to get some help finding out more about this money clip.
I found this money clip in the cupboard which my grandmother gave me in Singapore. She has no recollection of this money clip. This clip looks like it has Asian origins with the handcrafted flower motifs and its fish design.
the clip itself is pretty soft at the joints, so i suspect it might be sterling silver.
The marking of the maker is on the bottom of the clip, which looks chinese in origin. Although I can read chinese, chinese stamps are pretty hard to figure out as it includes merging the strokes of the chinese name. Without knowing the exact name it is pretty hard to find out.
Chinese Sterling SilverSilver is a plentiful raw material in China, so it’s been widely used in de…