Huge OLD Antique 786g Hand Hammered 950 Sterling Silver Serving Tray Bowl Dish

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Huge OLD Antique 786g Hand Hammered 950 Sterling Silver Serving Tray Bowl Dish:
$490.00

ITEM DESCRIPTION

Here we have this Outstanding LARGE Fine Quality Vintage 1930s to 40s Mexican All Custom Handmade and Hand Hammered Heavy 950 Sterling Silver Jewelry, Candy or Food Tray or Dish with thick Handmade and Hand Tooled solid 950 Sterling Silver Beautifully Ornate edging.... It measures: 14\" at the longest point x 7 5/8\" at the widest point and stands 2 7/8\" at the highest point... It has fine custom silver work and craftsmanship, you can see who ever made this was a very skilled silver worker, it is all hand hammered silver base with the solid Silver hand tooled ornate edging...... It weighs in at 25 Ounces, the same as 786 Grams, the exact weight on the postal scale was 1 pound 9.2 ounces, it was tested by a professional silversmith from a well known jewelry gallery, and was tested as 950 sterling silver..... It is not signed as a lot of pieces back then were not signed... It is stamped \" Silver Mexico \".... It is also a fact that it is known that many pieces of silver jewelry and works of art made in Mexico back then where made of a higher content of silver than 925 sterling, even if it was stamped sterling or stamped 925, many many pieces that were stamped 925 or sterling were 950, 970 and 980+ until the Mexican government came up with the Eagle Assay office mark which was a way to keep watch on the silver content in the silver pieces being made for trade..... This Jewelry Tray / Dish is in Used AAA Fine Superb condition, as shown in the photos, there is No damage to any part of this piece, needs maybe a very little minor polishing of the silver if desired, it has been inside a show case for years away from the elements that turn silver dark, exact age unknown.Throughout US the trading posts serve also as pawn shops with the trader usually involved in an earthy form of banking business - part of the process known as pawning...... Latin Americans, Hopi, Zuni, Mexicans and Navajo\'s and many other Traders converted their turquoise and silverjewelry into cash....... When in need of money or commodities their assets are used as securities for loans......... At times the trading post vault is the safest place in which to keep valuables........ In this case the silversmith pawns their item for a minimum loan of cashand is happy to pay the interest rate in return for the security of his goods...... If articles are not redeemed after the contractual length of time, it becomes \" Old Dead Pawn \" and may be sold by the pawn shop trader for whatever the market will allow.PAYMENTS are due within 4 Days of end of sale. We do combine items for free. If your going to wait to pay to offer on more items, YOU MUST let me know in an email so I know whats going on. If you don\'t pay within the 4 days and not email me with why your not paying on time, I will NOT open a none paying buyer case against the buyer, I dont have the time to open a case then wait 15 more days to get paid, I need my money right away, that is why has that payment rule in place and that is also why they have emails to communicate with, so after the 4 days with No pay and No email, I will then void the sale(s) at my discretion and relist the item(s) without notice and you will NOT get the item(s) even if you then pay, I will just refund your payment(s), I do my Job within ALL the s rules they put on me and I expect the buyers to also follow ALL the rules layed out for buyers for paying on time within the time allowed.

The US 25 cent Coin piece (A Quarter) is used for a quick simple comparison of item, so you can get an IDEA of the size, the quarter measures: 24mm in diameter, thats also 15/16\", just a hair under an inch, the Actual Sizes are listed in the description.COMBINING sales = is TO BUY FROM US:* QUALITY VINTAGE ITEMS* OVER 43,000+ POSITIVE responseS * DETAILED AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS* SWIFT SHIPPING, COMBINED SHIPPING AS WELL * LOWEST PRICES = NEVER A SURPRISE RESERVE ON OUR ITEMS* WE ARE HONEST, FRIENDLY AND APPROACHABLE SELLERSBe sure to add us to your favorites list! Check out our other items! Origin of the items we sell....... Most Jewelry is purchased because the buyer loves the look of an item, and it is a personal preference, and some are sought after by collectors, but it is the Buyers sole responsibility to Actually know what they are purchasing, and do their own research, as we can only give the information that we gathered when we purchased the items, we cannot verify our information in our descriptions due to many different circumstances, like ........ the person who had them in an estate was the only surviving spouse and they don\'t know the information about the items, or the information is given by an estate executor who had the items looked at by a professional, or did their own research, or a large group of jewelry was purchased from a Dead Pawn or Old Pawn Collection purchase, sales or individually purchased from other collectors, and a lot of items are already tagged with information by the previous owners or estate personnel, if items have sales tags or inked writing on them we remove these tags or writing on the items most of the time before we sell them, or the Gallery or Person it came from gave us the information we use, or was made by, we also cannot verify the exact age of items, or any hallmarks, or who had them first, second, third and so on on these old items unless signed with full name of silversmith. We try our very best to give you all the information we have gathered, and have purchased many Identification Books on the Makers and Hallmarks of their Jewelry, and use the internet to do research on these items, and use that information we researched, in addition to the information we have been given. We give all that information we know on an item in our sale descriptions, and we thank all the other ers out there who also take the time to let use know more about an item we may not know about, so if you see an item that has information you feel is incorrect, or can give us more information on it, please email us, or call us about that information you have, we never intentionally misrepresent anything we sell, and will always do our best to bring you the information we gathered about that item, we are not experts by any means.
Just a little about us and what we specialize in. We have lived and worked in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Colorado, I used to work in the turquoise and copper mines in Arizona for 12 years Tunneling in Texas 10 years, Mining in Colorado 15 years and have been around turquoise jewelry over 45 years, so it is not something new to me or my wife, although we don\'t know it all, we do have a great understanding about it and collecting it, and have an extensive Rare Library of the old collectors books and unpublished magazines and manuscripts on the subject which helps us learn and understand more each day. Although we live in Alabama right now, we still travel to the southwestern states scouring North, South, East and West of each state, up and down the old untraveled back roads no one else does, finding forgotten mine sites and rare minerals and have a great reputation with some of the oldest Indian trading posts in the southwest and with the Individual Native Americans them selves, so you may know you are buying from a very experienced collector of Native American Indian Jewelry, which you can see by the unusual and unique items we bring to , and have done so for over 18 years now, longer than most of the sellers selling Native American New Jewelry now, and we sell Turquoise Jewelry necklaces, rings bolos belt buckles, bracelets, and, Kachinas, Pottery, Rugs, Blankets, Art Work and more, if you have any questions, or looking for that special piece to fulfill your collection, please feel free to email us and let us know.