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The price of a silver candelabra will depend on the size of the item and the amount and quality of the silver in the piece. Prices will range from the cheaper silver plated to antique silver.
The "IS" stamp on a silver spoon likely stands for International Silver Co, which was a prominent American silver manufacturer. The stamp helps to identify the manufacturer of the spoon and can also sometimes indicate the silver content of the piece.
IS stands for Inlaid silver. ie Holmes and Edwards have a full line of Inlaid silver, which is major improvement over silver palte and the IS is stamped on each piece, usualy in a square box stamp
If the piece is stamped "sterling," or "925," then it is real sterling. If it's stamped "IS," the initials stand for "International Silver" Company, an American company founded in 1898 from a conglomeration of smaller companies that specialized in silver plated tableware. IS, or International Silver, only has a thin (.20 mm) layer of sterling silver over a base metal core. It has no melt value.
According to an Internet search, the "IS" stands for "International Silver". International Silver has owned Rogers since 1898. The IS has no meaning as far as the purity of the silver piece.
It means International Standard of silver plating thus identifying your piece as silver plate vs. silver
It means International Standard of silver plating thus identifying your piece as silver plate vs. silver
It's a purity mark, which indicates what percentage of silver is in the item. In that specific case, the piece is 96.2% silver, and the remainder is probably copper.
It has no value, unfortunately. EPNS stands for Electro-Plated Nickel Silver. It has no silver content and if in rough condition, it's going to have no value as a piece either. Sorry!
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If a piece of jewelry is stamped with OTC 925, the OTC stamp is the name of the company that made the jewelry, OTC International. 925 is a common stamp on all sterling silver.
From the description of this piece it may be a German made piece. The numbers 848 mean the quality of silver or it could also mean the quantity of silver.