Became fascinated by the Marsh Arabs, their history and recent troubles, when I bought a lot of spoons years ago, one kept for my collection, the...
Sorry, missed your post - yes, they're fairly recent acquisitions, have a weakness for Scandinavian silver... ~Cheryl
The imagery on the niello bracelets is distinctive to Marsh Arab silver, it was also known as 'Amara work' (Amara is in Iraq), and as already...
French silverplate marks are square or rectangular in shape to distinguish them from the solid silver lozenge shape maker's marks, and the '4',...
The tastevin would be French silverplate. The flask is Indian Colonial - Hamilton & Co.: https://www.925-1000.com/ix_HamiltonCo.html ~Cheryl
The Webster piece is a salt shaker spoon - somewhere in the back of my mind, think there's one shown in a catalog reprint at the back of...
The bracelets in the 4th pic are Marsh Arab niello - they show scenes from the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley (the 1st bracelet has a depiction...
As already suggested, much more likely to be Argentinian than Peruvian - have also seen many very similar in design to this one over the years, in...
Now you need a bombilla to go with it... ~Cheryl
Some other David-Andersen enamel spoons of the same era, the lowest piece plique-à-jour : [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
It was also wrapped in bubble wrap, then placed in a box, shipped in a padded envelope - and it wasn't at all a valuable piece... ~Cheryl
Recently received a rather delicately detailed silver spoon, so tightly wrapped in plastic wrap that it took me about 10 minutes carefully slicing...
Heh, we didn't have a lamp back when I was a kid, but did have the ubiquitous cypress-slice clock, with a heavy polyurethane or resin coating -...
Doubtful there'd be any damage from the plastic off-gassing through a cotton sheet, though silver should never be displayed or stored touching...
Personally, can't say I see this set as 'Deco', it's a very traditional in form - the tray in particular, with its stamped 'chasing' is typical of...
Thought the name sounded familiar, finally had time to run through some old research projects and found 'Excelsior Silverware Corp.' was based in...
Moved to Florida in '71, have seen all sorts of stuff out of cypress, some nice and some truly dreadful - did use to make good money on cypress...
It's a root bowl, given your location and the look of it , most likely cypress - here's one a bit more complex:...
It's Swedish Nysilver (new silver - nickel silver, usually silverplated), the maker is 'ÖSTBERG & L', the pattern is a Swedish classic called...
You don't give a size on the spoon, looks like it might be a sugar sifter - it's mid 19th century Baltimore silver, .896 fineness. ~Cheryl edit...
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