Help with signatures om 1945 Sheffield sterling tray.

Your help with these signatures is greatly appreciated.

 

I thought it looked like Duret? must be related to doctors with the illegible siggy's....
A or R Keith?

 

Could be a J not sure

 

I'm seeing Leith, not Keith on that one. Plus, I don't think that other one is Collins. Looks like the 2 potential l's have another letter between them.

 

Ian Robinson at the top. I tihnk the "Duret" is actually Sweet. The one above Collins might be McNeil(L)

 

My guess is that it was some blokes at the golf club or Rotary making a presentation to a retiring member and none of them were anything other than routine prosperous pillars of the community.

Id be looking at either polishing them out or scrapping it eventually.

Trays are one of my favourite 'below metal value' buys because they are usually reasonably heavy and no one seems to want them.

 

& that looks like a heavy tray !!
Heavy with memories that someone no longer wanted ...or could afford to hold on to....
Actually....a little sad !

 

There's a J.R. Sweet company in Mustoe, VA that is a composite materials business.

 

These guys are as bad as artists

 

Thanks everyone for trying, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't some famous "group of 12" or something. Off to the scrap shed it goes.