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Title: what are these, are they valuable?
Post by: hanny on June 23, 2008, 03:30:00 AM

I found these two objects in my Attic, the pencils seem to be silver, but do not have any hall marks, they have text saying sterling silver on them. I am pretty sure coin is gold and has some value, any help would be great, thanks.

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Title: Re: what are these, are they valuable?
Post by: hanny on June 24, 2008, 07:28:30 AM

does anyone have an idea about the pencils?

Title: Re: what are these, are they valuable?
Post by: cogar on June 24, 2008, 01:41:07 PM

I can only venture a quess about the pencils, and that would be,

the name suggests they were made/sold in England,

they appear to be a fancy "gift" set,

the Heart, Diamond, Spade and Club insignia suggests "playing cards",

thus they may have been made for a gift for someone who was a "card fanatic" such as a Bridge player.

OOPS, I decided to Google that "guess" and found this for you.

Here, click on this url

http://www.peterdunn.org.uk/bridgewebsite/ephemera.htm

and check out all the items clear to the bottom to see what I mean. I noticed 1 mechanical pencil near the bottom and a box of "bid pencils" about half way down which suggests to me that is what you have.

Bridge bid pencils

cheers

Title: Re: what are these, are they valuable?
Post by: hanny on June 25, 2008, 02:55:51 AM

thanks for the detailed post, thats really helpful!!