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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 123567, member: 59"]Likely for fish, for serving it rather than eating it, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would call the handles "beaded with acanthus leaves." It's awfully hard to tell what they're made of, maybe ivory, or possibly an early form of "French ivory" or "ivorine?" Not sure when those came into being, and with sterling, the handle material should not be "cheap."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 123567, member: 59"]Likely for fish, for serving it rather than eating it, of course. I would call the handles "beaded with acanthus leaves." It's awfully hard to tell what they're made of, maybe ivory, or possibly an early form of "French ivory" or "ivorine?" Not sure when those came into being, and with sterling, the handle material should not be "cheap."[/QUOTE]
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