Posted 13 years ago
mrbrin
(1 item)
hi,
hopefully you are looking at my sycee ingots,
as you can see they have markings on each item,they are about the size of my thumb other than that i dont really know much else about them but hope somebody does.
im happy to give as much info as i can so please feel free to ask.
my email is; mrbrin@hotmail.com
Hi, I also have a sycee that I can't find any information about.
What are these used for?
nldionne, they're 19th century Chinese silver ingots. These are faked a lot though, if I had one I'd test it with acid
What kind of info are you guys looking for? You already know what they are, so I guess you want to translate the characters? You'll have to scan through a list of Mandarin until you find the ones on the ingot, and then translate them using Google Translate. Not easy, but that's the way I research oriental antiques.
I wouldn't be counting on random people to be jumping at the chance to take the trouble and email you a free appraisal though, doing research is the responsibility of the owner. There's a ton of information about sycee ingots online, and I even found several with the same marks as yours with a quick Google Image search. Give it a try, see what you can find out. Its a lot of fun