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GUEST: This is a first-place 
trophy from the Canton 
Sailing Regatta in 1859.

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APPRAISER: It's a wonderful 
example of what we would call 
China trade silver. If you can

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imagine the maritime trade as 
it would sail to Canton, once 
it arrived there, it was there

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for three months, six months. 
All those sailors needed things 
to do. So they golfed, they

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played polo, they played 
soccer, and they sailed. 
You said 1859, I see 1850.

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APPRAISER: That's very, very 
early for this sort of piece. 
Most of these were made for

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the Chinese market. What 
you would do is, you'd 
go into your Chinese 
retailer, the silversmith,

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and you'd pick out what you 
wanted, and then you would have 
it engraved for that particular

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occasion. Well, they happened 
to pick out a Chinese silver 
cup that was made for the

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Western market. Many of the 
ones made for the Chinese market 
have these embossed dragons

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and figures and villages 
all over them that represent 
Chinese life. This has more the

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acanthus leaves that you would 
find in a nice piece of English 
silver. Now, underneath here,

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we have the hallmark that looks 
English, but it's really a 
pseudo-English hallmark. And

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in the middle of that, 
you see the three letters 
that distinguish this 
as having been made

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by Khe Cheong, a very prominent 
silversmith in the mid-part 
of the 19th century for China.

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In a well-advertised auction, 
this should sell somewhere in 
the range of between $5,000

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and $8,000.

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GUEST: Pretty good.

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APPRAISER: I think it's great.