Not sure I understand any significance in the differing stamps, have little doubt that all were done at the factory, and the numerals appear to be...
Oops, see Terry posted while I was typing (and good to know that they do say '85', though my eyesight is getting pretty bad). So apparently,...
Not necessarily pepperettes - Terry didn't say if they all have the same size holes. Have a weakness for tiny shakers, also have them in china,...
Heh, they are a PITA to clean up, Mansons, especially the ones that were made of thin metal. Have handled a lot of them over the years, and still...
Hehe - Switzerland... Similar mark on a pair of Middle Eastern earrings: [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
It is a wholesale catalog, like most other vendor catalogs of the era, and marketing to retailers rather than the hospitality trade, most...
Not hotelware, just regular individual shakers, if the holes are all the same size, may have been sold as pepperettes for use with open salts -...
Heh, amazing what a good close-up can show - the star that I saw in the original shots doesn't seem to be present at all in the new pic... ~Cheryl
Not where I can check my button books, but the one mark I can make anything out of appears to have a star in an outline with something to the...
I have 'Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845', by Glanville and Goldsborough, have read a couple more of her books on silver, as well as one on album...
Looks like silver to me too - no size mentioned, but would guess an Ottoman/Turkish zarf missing its porcelain finjan... ~Cheryl
Nice - might guess it's perhaps '54' rather than 'SA'... ~Cheryl
Perhaps kin to Russell Means? My mother has always loved saying her grandmother's name, Eldora Philena - I am eternally grateful she didn't...
Soviet era, mid 20th century - plated melchior (nickel silver), made by Mstera Jewelers, price: 15 rubles, no kopeks, the first character on the...
A Weidlich Tapestry bread tray was one of the first pieces of silver I bought as a teenager, still like the look of it. Have always known it as...
The resist could be done by hand (often seen in the bowls of souvenir spoons), but these Weidlich 'Tapestry' type pieces were mass-produced, a...
Acid-etched, circa 1920s... ~Cheryl
Ran through a Wilcox catalog from that era, didn't find this piece, but it looks like a tea caddy to me... ~Cheryl
Might be nephrite jade with small pyrite inclusions - the large Asian grocery where I sometimes shop sells near identical prayer bracelets in...
Perhaps a pin tray/dish and from the look of it, suspect it's Straits Chinese silver - if you scroll down to the second to last picture on the...
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