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A Nef, centerpiece used for various items on the dinner table, salt, spices, etc.

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You don't mention a size, but if it's around 6, 6-1/2 inches long, it's a relish or chow-chow spoon.

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Towle's Old Colonial pattern, introduced in 1895.

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Have always known them as folding biscuit boxes, most seem to date 1860s-80s, and usually British silverplate. Nice item and not particularly common, do google image and web searches for "folding biscuit box" and several similar examples will come up. Would guess that these are more for th...

Not sure if I've seen English examples, pretty typical of over-the-top late 19th century American silverplate, sometimes seemed like they'd just use as many varied design elements and assorted gimmickry as possible.

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Japanese, not American.

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They all look like jewelry caskets to me.

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Ela - Danish maker Egon Lauridsen, check here: http://www.925-1000.com/dmE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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My understanding is that they shut down due to the combined reasons of economic difficulties from the Depression, the outbreak of WWII and a general lack of interest from the manufacturers. Since 1988, The Gold and Silversmiths Guild of Australia, formed by a group of jewelry manufacturers, has a re...

Believe the early 20th century hallmarking of gold and silver goods in Australia was done by private enterprises and there were no government standards. Some gold jewelry was marked from 1889 with voluntary stamps with a maker's mark, fineness and symbol, endorsed by the Manufacturing Jewellers Asso...

Is it fairly small? 5 ounces would most likely be the capacity of your bowl, rather than the weight. I usually run across marks like yours on restaurant/hotelware. Int'l is owned (along with Wallace and Towle) by a large conglomerate called Syratech. If you google International Silver or Syratech, y...

I was just going to post the same opinion on two-piece construction, having always found in my research that spoons dating later than rat-tails, and possibly some rat-tails were raised from a single ingot, using a swage to form the drop. Have also seen swages with decorative designs incorporated bel...

That's the Simpson, Hall & Miller / International knight mark, your pattern is Margaret (Old), introduced in 1907.

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W.K. Vanderslice & Co. became the company's name in 1897, by that point they had become basically a silver and jewelry retailer rather than manufacturer.

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Looks like a fancy little pocket blood letting knife.

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Looks like a spoon warmer to me, but seems just a bit large?

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I've used Orvus, a very gentle neutral pH non-ionic soap for years on antique and vintage fabrics, doesn't leave any particles or residue after rinsing.

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Given the resemblance to a steam engine - is it a coffee steamer/espresso maker/milk frother type devise?

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Have collected lily of the valley spoons for years, this is not a full-line pattern, the pattern number is 39 (I call it LOTV Twist), believe the only pieces that I've run across are spoons, cocktail forks and the bon-bon, my demi spoon has a French grey finish. Interestingly, I have a Birmingham 18...