Hunh, definitely looks like it's intended to hang, and I'm with Bakersgma on thinking that something might have hung from that downturned tendril,...
Your piece looks like it might be cracked? ~Cheryl
The interior should be especially smooth because they start off with a clear enamel over a copper base, the silver wires are set on that enamel,...
'Shotai-shippo' - the technique is a bit different than European plique-à-jour... ~Cheryl
Champlevé enamel from India, should have a matching spoon, have been seeing them since the 1970s-80s, both marked and unmarked - pretty sure...
You may add Switzerland to the countries that used the lothige system, and along with Denmark, Norway and Sweden also measured silver fineness in...
Canterbury was in production for at least a century, there were variants in piece style, your small sugar tongs are more pleasing to my eye than...
Towle - 'Canterbury' pattern, introduced in 1893. ~Cheryl
Might look up 'impossible bottle' - have seen all sorts of things, including dice, in bottles, probably pennies more than anything else... ~Cheryl
That Lenox mark was used 1906-30... ~Cheryl
Swedish minimum standard is .830, and the import mark guarantees at least that fineness. From the look of the vase, would guess it's Norwegian...
From 1905 and 1906: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Can't say I recall seeing lobster forks as serving pieces, they're not particularly common (seafood fork kind of covers it), but are longish...
Beef forks are typically fairly small serving pieces with four (occasionally three) tines, the outer tines flared - I don't have any Watson...
As already suggested, it was most likely sold as small beef fork, used to serve sliced meat... ~Cheryl
Page turner, it's missing its handle... ~Cheryl
Believe they're very optimistic in their pricing, but these really are nice spoons......
Perhaps he used a lighter hand adding onto a more heavily brush-stroked background - it really does look to have genuine age, perhaps poke around...
To my eye, in the close-up picture, brush-strokes appear to be swirling across the entire surface, rather than creating the individual elements of...
Clearly I am just too clueless to understand your rant regarding what were were prolifically produced silver pieces done in 'antique' styles and...
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