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victorian
Markings
Victorian Electroplate Marks: What the EPNS Stamp Really Tells You
An Edwardian tea pot from a Bristol estate sale, picked up for twenty-two pounds in February, carried the impressed letters EPNS beneath the maker's mark of James Dixon & Sons. The four letters do not denote silver, and yet the piece is worth more than its weight in silver would suggest.
Restorations
A Victorian Mourning Brooch, Re-Set
A jet-and-hair brooch from 1873, with a damaged bezel and a missing pin, came back through the work of a goldsmith in Manchester and a hair-worker in Norfolk who is one of the last in the trade.