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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chandler In Las Vegas, post: 564181, member: 10068&quot;][ATTACH=full]171933[/ATTACH]&nbsp; They appear to not be place pieces, pieces that are meant for individual diners for individual courses. Usually the engraving on old pieces gives rise to their use but I cannot find any clue in them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting that the English usually have three sizes of things and use them accordingly. Big knife, medium knife and small knife. Big fork, medium fork small fork. You can see from the Gossford Park capture the interesting two fork method for the fish course. It took the rise of the merchant class to appropriate the manners of the upper classes and THEY likes the specificity of sterling pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is said that Queen Victoria HATED the parvenu nature of the Fish Knife and SHE used a fork with a BREAD PUSHER. Personally, every grand diner I serve has a fish course just so I may lay out my fish knives and forks. I got them and I use them. Would it be OK here if i posted a picture of my last dinner setting for clarity?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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