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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 1411659, member: 10944&quot;][ATTACH=full]222836[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for all the great info! It looks like Sansom&#039;s marks would have stopped being used in 1847 when the business was acquired and underwent a name change. I found some of his sterling pieces based on your post and they are heavily hallmarked on all parts of the cutlery. That would make these very unlikely to be sterling IMO. They could be OSP which predates electroplating or could be EP which looks like it began in with Elkington in 1840 (although invented in 1805). I&#039;m going to guess OSP because they just don&#039;t look like any EP I&#039;ve ever seen. Could be wrong but that&#039;s my guess. The cutlery I see photos of was very ornate so maybe these were just flatware handles and not meant for something less as I thought might be the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some sterling from TS: <a href="https://www.forrestandfraser.com/products/a-very-good-set-of-eight-silver-fruit-dessert-knives-and-forks-sheffield-1868" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forrestandfraser.com/products/a-very-good-set-of-eight-silver-fruit-dessert-knives-and-forks-sheffield-1868" rel="nofollow">https://www.forrestandfraser.com/products/a-very-good-set-of-eight-silver-fruit-dessert-knives-and-forks-sheffield-1868</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: falling asleep and typed wrong century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit 2: the pattern certainly is interesting. I thought maybe it was religious in nature. Would be fun to find it. Thanks for poking around in your reference material.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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