I found this site explaining the tool: https://fallcity.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/08B3F01B-2570-4C29-8019-786854412316
Seems to be a quite small pendant and the loop could have been fitted later as it looks modern. Maybe the mark came with the loop.
I don't think that it is as old as 100 years. We have to get a better picture.
The hallmark looks Italian to me.
A new suggestion is that this is a burnishing tool. A tool used by a silversmith to polish the surface inside a bowl. A straight burnishing tool...
Thanks for your interesting explanation, I have always wondered.
Well, I go for a bowl turning hook, but I never heard that my grandfather had a lathe, so I assumed that it was a spoon carving tool. You learn...
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I have to convert the picture to URL but how? I didn't succeed, sorry. Need help!
Ok! Then is my next thought that the tool is used to catch a rope or a string and tighten it. Or maybe to catch something with a loop. Tricky thing!
After some consideration, this is not a Butter Curler, but a Spoon Carving Tool. I have inherited a similar tool used by my grandfather.
Looks like a butter curler to me. Try and see the result.
Your Norwegian candlesticks is marked with a beaker, the sign of the silver factory Thorvald Marthinsen in the city of Tønsberg. I guess they are...
There is nothing wrong with those spoons. Silver spoons were valuable, so at the time one wanted to show the hallmarks when placed on the table....
The snuffbox is not Swedish, as the marking follow certain rules. Always all marks in a row and always with the state mark/control mark containing...
This lovely pewter bowl is designed and cast by the Swedish jeweller Harald Linder in the town of Uddevalla on the west coast of Sweden. The...
Thanks all, I am preparing pictures of the Norwegian wedding plate and a short story. It will be fun to show something that old.
Thank You all! I hope i can be of some help, but a lot of you are very skilled. I live in southern Sweden not far from Copenhagen, the capital of...
I am "The Swede" quite new at Antiques Board. Thank you for accepting me! I am a quite old collector of silver items, interested in older...
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