A silver bowl from Germany or Turkey

kemerald · Post by **kemerald** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:15 pm

I have a bowl with a mark of K900F. Does anyone know anything about that kind of marking? Is it considered 900 silver or what?
Thanks...

kerangoumar · Post by **kerangoumar** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:56 pm

Hello

in the arcane parlance of the museum world, 900 is just above what is referred to as "low-grade silver". It is not quite sterling, but it is above the accepted silver standards of quite a few countries. As to the mark, it should be seen - even a drawing would be preferable to a verbal description.

kemerald · Post by **kemerald** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:46 pm

Hi, thank you for your reply. I will try to capture a picture of it and post. I have an 88.00 U.S. dollar cheap "Kodak Share" digital camera. It is super difficult to capture the tiny markings on silver pieces. What kind of camera do you use for extremely small print?

kerangoumar · Post by **kerangoumar** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 2:07 am

here is a very good article with many useful hints

http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic ... ing+silver