Featured Can you help with the marks on this whatchamacallit?

Hi all! I'm doing an inventory of the contents of a family member's home and am coming across some unusual things that I'm not quite sure how to categorize. Thought I'd better ask the board for some help with this one. I'm having a hard time with this odd little nugget.

Can anyone help with the markings? I'm not even sure if it's sterling, SP, or a combination.

I'm calling it a presentation piece rather than the chicken-legged, golf club, guy on the horn title that my son suggested. Does something like this have a proper name?

Thanks for taking the time to look!

 

EPNS is electro plated nickel silver. I'um sure others will chime in...I'd probably just call it a trophy.

 

That last picture seems to have a British silverplate maker's mark. but is too small to see all the letters accurately. Any chance of a better look?

 

Unless James (somebody or other) gave the piece to the Great Yarmouth Golf Club so the club could use it as a trophy, I'm not sure that trophy really applies.

 

Good call...my mind automatically read the inscription as the golf club having presented the piece to James not the other way around. So maybe not a trophy.

 

Looks like the top flips open............... it's a table snuff mull.

 

The top of the horn where golfer is? I can't tell. @sassafras Does any part open?

 

That's the only picture of the mark I have right now, but I can get a better one when I go to the house next time.

The top does open.

 

It gets even better...there are golf balls that sit on the corners!

 

I had never heard of a table snuff mull. Had to look that one up. How interesting!

 

Hi....if you can get a CRISP, CLOSE-UP of the circled marks, we can give you better information....they're just too small to try and enlarge clearly!! Thanks!!!

 

Will do. I'll try to get over there tomorrow.

 

@Hollyblue
Thanks, I had never heard of them either.
Seems to be Scottish in origin. Isn't golf also a Scottish tradition?

http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionarysnuffmull.html

 

Golf originated in Scotland. Royal and Ancient St Andrews and all that. Mulls are based on horn shapes, because that's what they were made of originally.

This is a nice thing: normally, silver plate isn't of much worth, but a good golf related mull, even from a minor club, has some value.

You could always contact them - http://www.club-noticeboard.co.uk/greatyarmouth/

 

Very cool, bear! Thank you. I'll get in touch with them. At the very least they might like to hear where it is now residing.

 

Welcome to our forum.

Let us know what they say if you get a reply.

 

Do please let us know if they tell you anything, it would be really interesting.

 

They may want it back …. Who knows under what circumstances this left their establishment.

 

Hi Sass and welcome from Australia.

 

Thank you , AuDragon.

I'm going to try to get back to the house this afternoon and will post some new pics of the marks as soon as I get them. Really appreciate all of the help so far!