Antique EPNS napkin rings

I picked these up in Wilmslow yesterday. No markings but they look like silver plate. You can see where they have been polished through to the base in small areas. Not sure how old they are. I've found a very similar one on Ruby Lane but they know about as much as me.

https://www.rubylane.com/item/2081941-RL-1194/VICTORIAN-Engraved-Silver-Napkin-Ring-Lovely

 

One of those times when 'Victorian' would actually be correct - commercial electroplating wouldn't date earlier than the 1840s and very little, if any documentation of napkin ring production has been found prior to the 1830s in the UK and other European countries, common in catalogs there and in the US by the 1860s.

Should mention that the description of the linked napkin ring as 'engraved' is incorrect, the decoration on theirs and yours is die-struck, but similar designs were engraved as well.

From an 1866 American catalog:




From an 1897 English catalog:




~Cheryl

 

Thank you. Nice knowledge and reference material. Die-struck rings true as you can see a faint mark on the inside of the rings too where they were struck.

$7 each in the 19th C. That's a fair whack isn't it?

 

Prices in the American catalog are per dozen.

~Cheryl