You're welcome, but doesn't seem like a useful observation. To my uneducated sensibility, it does not feel Italian. If that is a W & not an M,...
How big? Maybe the big odd bit was meant to hold in place something that stood in the large compartment? Looks purpose built, but...? Think the...
Maybe the neck of what it went into wasn't round either?
Upside down, this bit could almost be Greek letters, ELGMI, except epsilon is backwards: [ATTACH]
Terry's reply led me to this site, very useful: http://chicagosilver.com/marks_master_list.htm
I've never seen this before & didn't know it was even possible. How cool! I can see why a person could be partial to them. I have a fondness...
Something that way. Seems designed for liquid to come out in more of a gush, not the controlled flow you would want for pouring beverages.
I don't know rice about them either, & agree it is unscoop-like in many ways. But if you poured from this, wouldn't the liquid come out like a...
It works. :happy:
Looks more like a scoop?
Looks like a drum major, pipers, drummers & a dog. I don't see musical instruments of any other type. About the leopard skin:...
Wonder if it used to say around the edge, but all worn down now. [ATTACH]
Interesting that the UBC emblem looks so much like the Masons' one & does not include a hammer. [IMG]
May not be this one, but shows Armand Bayardi was giving some thought to this sort of thing.
Different foundry? Think these are labels more than signatures, put there by the foundry rather than the artist.
Not sure I'm correctly following which holes are which, so may just be repeating your idea. The small holes symmetrically placed at the sides I...
This looks like it belonged to someone who worked with his hands & never took it off. Not farriers: [IMG]
Ugh. Wondering if it could have Masonic significance, found this:...
My first thought was Irish Derby, but seems Waterford takes pride in its connection to the racing world in many places:...
It's not my field. Will having the numbers allow for more research? If they're correct, pattern is just called 'Blue'!
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