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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Warshaw, post: 9426971, member: 16674&quot;]The tea strainer has a hexagonal swinging strainer and a round slops bowl, with very nice rolled top and pouring lip.&nbsp; The handle is most probably Mahogany and has short split (10mm) where it joins the bowl.</p><p><br /></p><p>In its 100-years of life it has worked hard and the base is scratched.&nbsp; The bellow on the bowl has a number small dints, nevertheless the silver plating is intact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Length handle side&nbsp; 15 cm</p><p>Bowl diameter&nbsp; &nbsp; 7 cm</p><p>Height&nbsp; &nbsp; 6 cm</p><p>Weight&nbsp; 62 g</p><p><br /></p><p>There is maker’s stamped mark on base of bowl “D Fes under a cockerels head” and also a thinly scribed “992” or “266”.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Deschamps Brothers opened their workshop at 46 rue de Rocher, Paris, in 1923 and went on until 1960.</p><p><br /></p><p>The final photo is of a different tea strainer by the Deschamps Bothers, which suggests it is Art Deco.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two questions I would like answered, if somebody could.</p><p>1)&nbsp; Is mine Art Deco design? [It would fit in well with the date they started working 1923]</p><p>2)&nbsp; Is there anything significant about the numbers 992 or 266?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434357[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434360[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434361[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434364[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]434365[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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