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Subject:Re: Old Chinese Silver Marks
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Mar 31, 2014
Very interesting, Super. I'd despaired of making sense of that one, speculating instead that it might be two or three small characters indicating silver purity that were too worn to read. Now that you've lifted the veil, I can see the virtuous truth that was hiding in plain sight. :)
By adding "De" (德 - virtue) to my Google search, I was able to turn up information from the link below, indicating that the original name of the Qiu Tianbao Jewelry Store when it was founded during the Qing Jiaqing Reign ("1796-1821"[sic - should be 1820]) was "Qiu Tianbao De Ji" (裘天寶德記), "Qiu Tianbao Mark of Virtue".
There's lots of other information about the partnership involved in this store, including involvement of a famous Beijing opera star, but nothing apparently about what happened to the "Ji" on the end of the store name. Lest we sink up to our elbows into what begins to sound like a bubbly soap opera, I'll leave the rest untranslated as incentive for everyone else to join us in learning Chinese.
Cheers,
Bill H.
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