need help with salt Seller

[kinza-willi]

this salt saller has marks that i can not find lo75k or ulo75k and the name Hommet. is this Russin, what dose   the lo75k mean. any other information.  bill       bill hit 93 years young on the first of this month

[gracieallen01]

Try a google image search for: 'salt cellar' and 'hommet'.

[smiling66]

Click the link for some examples.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hommet+salt+cellars&sxsrf=AOaemvI_xJM5uKcRJJTU2DsSDPH-pEWHCQ:1642624...

Happy belated Birthday

Wow, 93 years young! 

[argon38]

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@kinza-willi wrote:

this salt saller has marks that i can not find lo75k or ulo75k and the name Hommet. is this Russin, what dose   the lo75k mean. any other information.  bill     

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Good to see you back, Bill. Your photo is blurry, but looking at the others out there it'll be silverplate, not sterling. The stamp is the original Soviet-era selling price, in rubles and kopeks.

[janetpjohn_la]

Happy birthday, Bill!

Janet

[argon38]

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@argon38 wrote:

Good to see you back, Bill. Your photo is blurry, but looking at the others out there it'll be silverplate, not sterling.

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In fact, I'm not even sure it is silverplate, although some listings describe it as such. Might be safer to describe it as "silvertone metal."

[melda58]

Happy Birthday!

Rita

[argon38 · Accepted solution]

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@argon38 wrote:

In fact, I'm not even sure it is silverplate, although some listings describe it as such. Might be safer to describe it as "silvertone metal."

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My suspicions were right - they're not silverplate. I had a look on some Russian sites and these salt cellars are actually made from melchior, which is an alloy of copper and nickel.

"Nickel gives melchior, unlike brass and bronze, a silver color, and that property, combined with its high corrosion resistance, made it popular for the manufacture of household utensils in the Soviet Union."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_(alloy) 

[evry1nositswindy]

Salt cellar not seller.

[kinza-willi]

thanks argon38, i had better photos but they were too large, i took 6 photos and i was able to put 3 of them on the post and the other 3 you could read the writing but they were not small enough. i will learn how.  argon38 i wont to thank all of you for putting up with the old man, i can not do yard work but i can take care of my self and i have a lot of free time and doing research keeps me busy, i am able to drive and i will drive from atlanta  next week to  chattanooga to see kin, 107 miles in 1 hour and 35 mins .   bill