On Apr 26, 9:09�pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> I was thinking about bidding on this, but it's so small
> and not particularly fine or attractive. �When it was
> at $9.99, I thought about it. �When it passed $30,
> I knew I wasn't going to bid. �The silver has cutouts,
> but it's not engraved or anything.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=310042750319
>
> $128.50? �I don't understand that at all.

It's worth more if it's not engraved.

Has nothing to do with the price of silver... it's all hand wrought,
museum quality antique, would require a full week of highly skilled
labor to produce one today... people collect those things, $128.50 is
a bargain price.... if you commissioned a silversmith to custom make
one today you'd be lucky to get one for under $1,285. Perhaps you
should look at the prices of small silver items here, and these are
all mass produced:

http://tinyurl.com/3pweoe

http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Cate...+pierced+spoon


Sheldon Sterling