They are intended to spear individual servings of butter - I'm fairly easily amused, though for me, the butter-shaving didn't really look fun or...
So I grew up with a silver butter pick, though we usually served with a butter knife, and we had a wired butter pat cutter (originally from when...
Circa 1897. Looks like the Replacements researchers didn't find any pattern names either. Gotta say, I'm familiar with butter curls, but have...
That's a Hamilton & Diesinger mark - the information on 925-1000 came from Rainwater, and while usually reliable, like most references, whether in...
Hunhhh, that's an odd one - and believe it's extremely unlikely to be American. Rattails weren't typically in use by the time Fiddle patterns...
French .950 Minerva mark (.925 after 1972), in use from 1838, its insect countermark on the back is a bigorne - if you can get a clear shot of the...
Can't really add anything - it's American Art Nouveau of the period, could have been produced by any number of makers... ~Cheryl
Also similar:...
Nice piece, almost certainly American coin, repoussé scenic landscape, circa 1850s-60s - not unusual to be unmarked... ~Cheryl
So true! I'm a book junkie, an addiction passed down to my brothers and me from my Mom - most of my books are in storage right now and I miss...
As if I didn't already detest AI, there is a fairly new member of another group who is using AI to aid in describing their finds with over the top...
Welcome. Do you have reliable provenance that they were wedding presents from the Kaiser to his son? ~Cheryl
Have to wonder what was stitched to the side of the base - perhaps a striker? ~Cheryl
From Pinto's 'Treen and Other Wooden Bygones' (1969): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Perhaps a 'go to bed'... ~Cheryl
That is a Hans Jensen mark, there was a business connection to Jorgen Th. Steffensen, and also to Hejl & Co. Sometimes identical pieces can be...
Spoons like yours were typically offered as bon-bon spoons, mostly just decorative with insinuated age, but used to scoop candy, sweetmeats, nuts,...
Agree that this is Hanau rather than Dutch, probably Georg Roth as they used various 'A' pseudo-marks, as well as the 'head-in-shield', and Dutch...
These miniature cedar chests, intended for candy, etc. became extremely popular in the 1920s, so much so that candy manufacturers presented the...
Couldn't really say its age other than these Polish Art Nouveau inspired designs seem to date no earlier than the 1960s-70s. Would expect to see...
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