I recently bought this necklace. I love it and want to know more about it. It says sterling and I think the makers mark is a dragonfly? But I can’t find any information on it. Can you help me?
Do you think it will even be an American piece?
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Looks Marcasite and Guilloche Enamel !!, pretty piece 
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Very efficient use of google image search and Chat GPT adjunct to Google!
Your effort raises an interesting point about the changing utility of a site like this which started off needed to allow silver purchasers and enthusiasts to access what was then fairly limited public data and now really acts as a place where you and I can demonstrate our ability to google combined with a background in silver to help fend off the tendency of AI to generalize and flounder.
And of course we are the architects of our own demise as every time we do the web searches we provide more and more AI data capability which makes us more and more redundant.
I asked a friend of mine who has been working with AI since its inception how we get ahead of this and M. replied by saying he already had the capability to vacuum up data off every single silver related site and put it on a search capability with proprietary access basically putting every site we relied on of business.
I challenged him and then gave him four silver marks to identify. Two very basic and clear and one obscure and a fourth decidedly unclear. He got two out of four without further prompting and all but the obscure one with further data feeds from me. And he did it all in less than seven minutes. And he knows absolutely nothing about silver.
I left the conversation and experiment aware that a machine could now do everything I have learned to do in fifty years in the business in about seven minutes and get it right three quarters of the time. This is very depressing for me and great news for the industry as giving the consumer better and immediate access to accurate data will boost market confidence and increase price.
CRWW
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Thank you so much! I’ll look in to it!
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Believe me or not but I’ve just discovered Google search 
, and to be truthful I get more excited going through what books I have to search for the history and identity of an item which seems to stick in the old grey matter a bit longer
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Google searches are just the old Boolean searches on crack.
I have been using them for years, probably longer than google, come to think of it.
So welcome.
It’s the use of image which is newer, based entirely of the enhanced pixel count of the modern digital camera still not as good as my old Leica or Hasselblad but getting there.
CRW
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