Featured Are these detachable handles?

Silver plate but I’m curious what these are used for.

Cavendish plate
Rdno 799262
Made in England
HA EA FA epns
3613

 

My first thought is a knife rest.

 

Seconded. They're meant to hold something and since they don't look like chopstick rests, knife rests they are.

 

Silver chopstick-rests would be much smaller. I'd say they're for cutlery, knives, or serving utensils (serving-spoons/ladles etc).

Very cute!

 

Mr. Nate is BuySterlingFlatware.com your company ?

 

Yes it is

 

The way those tabs are under the handle makes me think they twisted in to something .

 

That was my feeling too.

 

The "tabs" may just be there to provide a more secure attachment point for the bowed handle(?), instead of relying on a join at the inner edge of the ring alone.

Looking at other knife rests, they seem to favor a clean, undecorated surface for the section the knife actually rests on.

While looking for confirmation of the knife rest hypothesis, however, I came across this amusement -


"Brass Knife rest
This brass knife rest used to be part of a collection that was once owned by the Russain Romanov family. Found at an estate sale of a relative of a Romanov Nanny."
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/1555649245/

This is, instead, a vajra/dorje - a ritual object used in Tibetan Buddhism.

 

Great provenance too!

I have a couple of those too, also a very big one, probably for very big knives.

 

I keep coming up with a scarf ring........but no raised bar ...

 

I think they might be handles for vegetable dishes. They have removable handles that lock in with a similar tab system.

Edit: spelling

 

I'd like to see that..

 

Maybe the raised bar isn’t high enough though?

 

I have something like that from mom..

the bar here , does not seem to be any tab system ....just the soldered ends of the centre bar.......

 

Could be yeh. I had a nice sterling one. It was missing the handle unfortunately. It was at least a fairly popular pattern so I’m sure the buyer was able to source one.

 

IS there any potential information that can be gleaned from the back/bottom??
And could not make this any better refined..................

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Definitely a handle and Made in England, so post-WWI probably. I don't have time to look up the registration mark, but even without a name it would nail down the date it was designed.