Pirkovich K. The commodity expertise of precious-metal items for styling a table

The thesis is devoted to scientific and theoretical grounding of the commodity expertise of precious-metal items for styling a table. The paper sets forth a classification of serving items for the purposes of expert evaluation and grounds the criteria and parameters of documental, specific, qualitative and attributive identification of precious-metal items for styling a table. It has been proposed to use the boundary values of principal and alloying components in silver items of various chronological periods. The thesis has ascertained the specific admixtures of silver alloys of various chronological periods and their boundary values.The paper sets up the most significant criteria of value of precious-metal items for styling a table, specifies the method of their cost forecasting and calculates the assessment value of the artistic and historical serving items.