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A rare 19th century or earlier silver "Wager Cup" or Jungfrauenbecher', The cup has the look of a young girl with a wide long skirt in the form of a cup supporting over her head a smaller swivelling cup. The silver wager cup was created for use in wedding banquets, where the spouse drank wine from the bigger cup and offered his bride to drink from the smaller, avoiding pouring out even a drop of its content, indistinctly marked but XRF tests approx 83% silver, 13 Loth mark, likely German or Austrian, approx 10cm tall
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