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	<title>My Family Silver</title>
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		<title>The hidden cultural tragedy of the high price of silver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago the spot bullion price for silver was about £6 per ounze, a year ago it was £28 per ounze and though it has since fallen back from its peak, it is still trading around £18 per oz today. See chart (courtesy of Bullion Vault). The inevitable consequence? Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The British and the very first Gulf War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Piracy is not a new problem, of course, and sadly it has become a tragically topical one in the Indian Ocean today, but a magnificent silver gilt cup listed for sale at myfamilysilver.com recalls a little known chapter in British Imperial history when a task force was dispatched to eliminate attacks on East India Company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seal for a Braveheart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The motto carved in a magnificent hand seal listed for sale at myfamilysilver.com  gives a clue to its historic origin. Pro Libertate &#8211; For Liberty &#8211; is the motto of one of the most romantic of all the Scottish Clans: Clan Wallace, whose legendary forebear William Wallace famously defeated the might of the English army [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birdman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A beautiful silver dressing table set decorated in enamels with game birds recently listed at myfamilysilver.com illustrates the work of a member of a remarkable dynasty of family artists more usually associated with the Royal Worcester porcelain factory. &#160; The artist responsible, James Stinton (1870-c1950), was the third generation of his family to work for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A treasure from Mentmore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A magnificent silver gilt salver emblazoned with the coat of arms for Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery (1783-1868) recalls one of the greatest house sale in art auction history. Over a week in May 1977, Sotheby&#8217;s dispersed the contents of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, a seat of the Roseberry family through marriage with the fabulously wealthy de Rothschilds. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 16th Mr Wilson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently took a stand at “Who do you think you are live 2012” and had the pleasure of meeting many fascinating people; not least some of our fellow exhibitors, of whom more at a later date. I was delighted that our ranges of new glass and china emblazoned with family crests sold well and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armorial table from romantic Scottish castle found in Miami,Florida</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my recent visit to the enormous Original Miami Beach Art  &#38; Antiques Show in Florida, writes Martyn Downer, I spotted this magnificent Victorian marble topped table decorated in Pietra Dura (hard stone) mosaic with the coat of arms of the earls of Eglinton, a Scottish baronial family of ancient lineage with a very romantic past. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s in a name?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have recently been researching the etymology of family surnames in order to be able to provide more information to our visitors to www.myfamilysilver.com. There appear to have been many books written on the subject and most are largely subjective. Surnames generally derive either from a place or a nickname indicating size or looks. For [...]]]></description>
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