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| A ROYAL/AMBASSADORIAL PAIR OF GEORGE III STERLING SILVER PLATTERS |
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PRESENTED IS AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF GEORGE III ROYAL/ AMBASSADORIAL PLATTERS CREATED BY THE WELL-REGARDED LONDON PARTNERSHIP OF ANDREW FOGELBERG AND STEPHEN GILBERT IN 1791;
ENGRAVED WITH THE ROYAL ARMS BELOW THE ROYAL CROWN, WITHIN THE GARTER MOTTO, ON ONE SIDE; AND, A MONOGRAM UNDER VISCOUNT CORONET ON THE OTHER;
BOTH IN EXCELLENT CONDITION SAVE FOR THE EXPECTED LINES FROM USE-- NO DENTS, THE MARKS WELL-STRUCK AND LEGIBLE;
MARKED UNDERNEATH RIMS AND ENGRAVED WITH SCRATCH WEIGHTS 43=10 AND 41=8;
LENGTH 16",
WEIGHT: 89 5/10 STANDARD OUNCES
(2,538 Grams)
Our Guarantee:
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We believe that Ebay's money back guarantee suffices to ensure our
items' actual condition would correspond with the description provided in
the listing of the items. Hence, we feel any additional "return policy"
would be redundant;
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More importantly, however, to protect our clients against buying
counterfeits as well as misrepresentations of provenance, we offer a
unique guarantee of authenticity with no time-limit constraints.
Such
a guarantee of authenticity provides ironclad protection to Ebay
buyers; whereas, a 14, or even 30, day "return policy" could fail
miserably in many cases involving antique silver.
Consider (hypothetically speaking , of course) the case of an unsuspecting buyer
who spends over $10,000 on a silver item posed as original on the
pretext that it was acquired from the estate of a Russian family who had
fled to Canada in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Upon receiving the anointed treasure, the purchaser would inspect it for condition
issues; and once satisfied would probably leave the seller a positive
feedback comment.
Months, if not years, later the purchaser decides to have the item
appraised. It would be then that he/she finds out about the actual
provenance of the item: an auction house whose description of the item
explicitly mentions "bearing questionable marks" for a Faberge
work-master.
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