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  Sterling Silver Spoon

  Q: I inherited a silver tablespoon from my mother. On the back is the mark "Westmorland Sterling" with a design of a ram's head. I looked in Kovels' 2007 price book for a price, but all I could find was…

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  A reader wrote that, thanks to Kovels newsletter, she and her husband sold this 9 7/16-inch penguin cast-iron doorstop for a big profit. Here’s what she wrote: “At a northern Virginia estate sale in August ’08, I paid $46 for…

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