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Thank you dognose.

So you are fairly ceratin that all of the scabbard mountings are silver? I just cleaned them up a bit, and they eventually went from being dark black to silver. To me it behaves like sterling or high purity silver. It was also suggested to me that the other mounts could have been ...

The above is the full hallmark. This next mark is what appears on all the other mounts:

Hello,

I have a dirk hallmarked in Glasgow for 1913. One section on the scabbard has the lion for sterling, but the ohther marks on the scabbard only have the city mark, the makers mark, and the date letter. Any reason why they didn't use the lion throughout. The mounts are all obviously silver ...

Also, must add that the reason I don't simply remove them is that they are now glued into the boxes, and one box was an expensive custom box made for this particular item.

Hello All,

New here. Hope I am posting this in the correct forum.

I have two wooden boxes that are both storing some items mounted with antique sterling silver. Each box has some parts of it lined with the peel back type of adhesive "felt". I use quotations to describe this as felt, because I am ...