David-Andersen - Norwegian... ~Cheryl https://www.925-1000.com/david-andersen_marks.html
It's a hatpin. The length could range widely, sometimes well over 12", but around 6" was a very common late 19th-early 20th century length. The...
Sasano-bori hawk... ~Cheryl
It is a pot strainer, Foley or maybe Ecko... ~Cheryl
Poking around a bit, suspect the design is based on a Spanish Colonial vargueno/bargueno desk. On the paint colors, they wouldn't be atypical for...
Mom's in bed now, so a bit more time to clarify (have a lifelong interest in Scandinavia, and have collected Viking themed items for around 50...
Gotta say, that doesn't really look like a Viking ship to me, more like a fantasy medieval Spanish or Portuguese ship with a dragon or sea-serpent...
However one wants to treat their silver and silverplate is their business, if you like it tarnished, then leave it, but know that in the long run,...
Mom's is by the same maker as the OP's, it's #565, same design but with handles on each end, about 6" not including the little handles. Put a few...
Hi Greg, The Havemeyer family sugar business was founded in 1807, but the 'Domino' name is just not that old, even the ad above shows the...
These silver and silverplate sugar cube trays, along with similar pierced tableware, were very popular in the 1910s-20s, can't recall seeing the...
1922: [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Unless your hand is humongous, it's a sugar cube tray, the much less common biscuit (cracker) trays were usually around 8 inches long and larger...
Nice spider, Kyra! Love the engraved details... Have been meaning to show you a piece of mine (sorry, old pic, crummy definition) - have a few...
Gorham often date-coded their silverplate holloware, including hotelware, but as Bakersgma points out, it wouldn't have been a number, even though...
1994 - looks to me more like the bands were gilt rather than enameled... ~Cheryl
In my youth, was skilled enough at needlepoint, that for a time, I stitched the examples of a company's kits that were photographed for the...
I read 'J.FRANCKE'... https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/schale-auf-standversilbertjfranckeh-70cm-36-4078-c-d4d4077973 ~Cheryl
Those are English plater's marks, the 2nd mark is usually described as a Prince-of-Wales plume, variations of it were used by a number of firms....
Doubt this piece has anything to Georg Jensen, or any other Scandinavian maker - would guess modern, probably from India or thereabouts... ~Cheryl
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