Hunhhh, Stratton did offer sterling compacts, with guilloché decoration like this one (no enamel, just engine turned), produced by Levi & Salaman,...
I managed a luggage shop in the 1980s, and we also had a large repair shop in the back, so I'm pretty familiar with American luggage of various...
A very different souvenir of Florence - hand-wrought, nicely engraved with almost cartoonish little birds, and a dragonfly that always reminds me...
The spoon is a souvenir of Florence, the finial depicting a harpy horse tether ring at Strozzi Palace, the bowl based on the Caravaggio Medusa....
Ditto! Mom has both of the Daniel Low Salem Witch orange spoons (she and her older sister were both born on Halloween). ~Cheryl
Wonderful spoons, C! We have some of the same spoons, as well as similar taste in cases... This is an old pic of the cases that were on my...
Eh, mine are crummy cell phone pics - would love to see yours... ~Cheryl
As already astutely observed, it's an '800' and a German 'Reichsmark', stamped in opposing directions, no maker's mark - cast silver, in the Dutch...
Most of mine are not here with me at the moment, so I know how you feel - I miss them... ~Cheryl
Would love to see other folks' spoons - please post... ~Cheryl
[ATTACH] I love spoons - the familiarity of the form, an ageless and natural extension of the hand, with incredible variations in design and...
The sterling handle knife is Westmorland's 'George & Martha Washington' pattern, introduced in 1940 (The majority of its weight is not silver, the...
Gate-top closure for a purse... ~Cheryl...
It says 'TINN' - Norwegian pewter, a modern cast version of a traditional bunad sølje... ~Cheryl
Bottom pic shows 1964 London import marks... ~Cheryl
Soviet salt, silver plated nickel silver (melchior), made by Mstera Jewelers, the stamp to the right is the price... ~Cheryl
It's a Western/cowboy style buckle, if I recall correctly, circa 1980s-90s and made by the Western Buckle Co. - suppose it could be pewter, but...
Ummm, the Newcastle assay office, as did a few others, used the crowned leopard-head in addition to their other marks (if I recall correctly, it...
Looks to me like a damaged Japanese marquetry (Hakone Moku-Zougan) puzzle box too... ~Cheryl
Wai Kee is a Hong Kong jeweler, founded in 1885, your piece is .900 silver, and would almost certainly date prior to WWII - looks like a perfume...
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