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Chinese Silver box?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:25 am
by bread_baby
Do the markings in the center of the box mean anything?
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Re: Chinese Silver box?
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:51 am
by dognose
Hangul perhaps?
Trev.
Re: Chinese Silver box?
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:38 am
by zhaosu
It's a Vietnam silver, c.1930-50s, probably Saigon.
The character is "壽" which means longevity in Chinese. It's a common-used motif in China, Korean peninsula and Vietnam. Though people in Koreans and Vietnam have stopped writing in Chinese for dozes of years, you still can find some Chinese characters as ornamental motifs in newly made items.