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Can you tell us anything about the purse? Where is it from? Approximately how old is it?

That chain on the purse looks fairly new to me. It doesn't seem to match the character of the purse.

That's about all I can tell you, maybe someone else can chime in?!

From the little information that there is out there about Reed and Barton, I would say that you are correct in thinking that this is a Sterling piece from 1935. Apparently Reed and Barton began marking all copper based pieces with and A inside a C which stood for "copper alloy" in 1945. So...

I am fairly certain that this piece is silver, I just have not been able to confirm the hallmarks. If not silver, i would guess that it is very heavily silver-plated pewter. There are dings and scratches all over this piece, it has been polished half to death, and the only thing that remains under a...