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#WHAT DOES PK MEAN FREE#
Wikipedia ( / ˌ w ɪ k ɪ ˈ p iː d i ə/ ( listen) wik-ih- PEE-dee-ə or / ˌ w ɪ k i-/ ( listen) wik-ee-) is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system. Hope this information helps even though it’s not super accurate.Most text is also dual-licensed under GFDL media licensing varies Taking the age of all the other pieces I HAVE identified from this same lot, I would roughly guess it was made 1940’s-1950’s. As far as a date or age of the piece or designer… that’s tough. It was melted together, then sanded on both the face and rear as well as the joints… again this shows much older practices. The cross itself was 3 pieces put together, the long center portion and two short sides. The ring that a necklace would go through has rough cuts and was pinched together, again not modern technology.
The hole in this cross was not drilled by modern technology. The vast majority of the pieces I bought are from Italy… so I’m loosely guessing it came from Italy. The fact that all the pieces in my purchase are very old tells me this piece is also very old (which is why we can’t find anything online about C.T.). In this case it’s a designer as it’s clearly not a big manufacturer. Sterling is fairly obvious and means the metal alloy used to make the piece is 92.5% Silver. One of the crosses is stamped “STERLING C.T.”.
I just bought a storage unit and found LOTS of vintage and antique jewelry. With 7.4 billion people on Earth, and with thousands and thousands of designers, jewelry stores and manufacturers, it’s easy to see that the initials and letters and numbers could be anything: It’s meaningful to me, and I can identify my own work, but it’s not very helpful to anyone else. It’s like me putting “ RS” inside a band.
#WHAT DOES PK MEAN FULL#
585 (and if not, see my full list of stamps and numbers here). Most people already know what some of the words and numbers mean, like 14K, PLAT, SS.