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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2111526, member: 111&quot;]It&#039;s a water set tray - this particular shape is more common with the tilting ice pitchers, but have seen ones like this before...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Tufts set with similar tray and matching pieces engraved for an 1887 anniversary - they could have goblets, tumblers or cups (sometimes two), and occasionally a waste bowl too:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/378674-2015017/Antique-James-Tufts-Quadruple-Silverplate-Water" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/378674-2015017/Antique-James-Tufts-Quadruple-Silverplate-Water" rel="nofollow">https://www.rubylane.com/item/378674-2015017/Antique-James-Tufts-Quadruple-Silverplate-Water</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250575[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some water sets from an 1891 retailer&#039;s catalog:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250583[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Though the illustration seems to have little to do with this tray, the Wilcox-assigned patent for that date is for an &quot;Improvement in Waiters&quot;, &quot;...consisting of of a principal tray and an auxiliary tray elevated above the principal tray and set back from one edge of the principal tray, substantially as described.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250573[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250574[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Guessing the tray on this tilting water set from a Wilcox catalog is more in tune with the patent, the goblet tray elevated from the well under the pitcher:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]250586[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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