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The number "925" on jewelry refers to its being made of 92.5-percent silver. This is a stamp typically seen on sterling silver jewelry.
For example:
Pandora, a company specializing in genuine jewelry, uses "925 ALE" as a stamp on its silver jewelry. That way, the jewelry is labeled as being sterling silver and also as being an authentic Pandora-made piece.
"ALE" is the original jeweler's Pandora hallmark, with which all of its jewelry pieces are marked. It comes from the initials of the founder of the Pandora company, Algot Enevoldsen.
he mark "925 ALE" only appears on Pandora's silver pieces. Pandora's gold jewelry will contain the ALE symbol but with a different number to symbolize the carats. This marking, whether for silver or gold, guarantees that the piece of jewelry is authentic.
But there is many stamps of silver, not numbers, it's signs of animals are like stamps of my country..


Silver Purity and Identification stamps:


Below is a short list of a few different common grades of silver and where they are from:
999 – Pure silver (Bullion grade)
980 – Mexico (1930-1940)
958 – Britannia silver
950 - France (1st standard), Japan, U.S. (19th century), the Netherlands (before 1814), Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Mexico
947 - Russia (91 zolotnik)
925 - Sterling silver
916 - Finland, Russia (88 zolotnik), Latvia, Poland, Romania, Spain, Portugal
900 - US coin silver
835 - Germany, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands
830 - Scandinavia (older pieces), Portugal
826 - Denmark (1893 – 1972), Norway (before 1892)
800 - Germany (after 1884), France (2nd standard), the Netherlands (before 1814), Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Japan, Canada, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Mexico


If silver item does not have one of the above stamps, nor "Sterling" or "Silver" imprinted, most likely it is not silver.


Happy hunting:metaldetector:
Regards Hamid
 

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arnofarrell

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Thanks for the info. I am amazed at the amount of stuff you find. Good job and HH
 

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hamiddetecting

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Great detecting. Hamid!
 

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good info Hamid, do you clean up all that silver all at once or just leave it as is..........
 

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Hamid,

Good haul on the silver so far....thanks for sharing.

Regards + HH

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hamiddetecting

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good info Hamid, do you clean up all that silver all at once or just leave it as is..........
Thank you for your interesting. I save it for great video in december 2013:laughing7:

Happy hunting.
Regards Hamid
 

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