tamrock
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- Jan 16, 2013
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Found this last Tuesday at the ARC. It was $3.99 on all color tags, but the color blue half off senior day. At first I thought it was Asian or maybe Middle Eastern, but looking at the feet it dawned on me of how a Peruvian silver wine taster I had once looked and was made by the hand wrought hammered method. Sure enough I did find a silver bowl that was part of a lot on the Skinner's auction site with the same looking feet, which I believe is a stylized llama. It isn't marked, but I swung by the coin shop and it was tested as good pure silver and I was offered an even $80.00 for it as scrap. Thing is the Skinner's site lists these South American silver bowls as .900 alloy, so even at that this bowl would have a melt yield of 6.3 ozt. of pure .999 silver. I'll stash it away for now, because I've got some time and labor in cleaning this piece, as it was a deep blackened mess when I picked it up and I still have a little more cleaning to do on it.
Great job.
