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Oh and they appear to be old silverplate, not electroplate. My mother always referred to them as Sheffield but I wonder if they might not be American given the provenance? If there are hallmarks on the piece, you ought be able to determine the maker and possibly even date range for it, whether Engl...

An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland) by Sir James Balfour Paul gives the following, which matches the hatching for the arms on your chafing set: Gordon of Aitkenhead (1806): Azure three boars' heads erased within a bordure engrailed or charged with three escallops sable. Fairbairn's Crests shows a number...

It's not a "family" or "royal" crest; it looks like the monogram EV (or VE) with an imperial crown over the top of it.

I don't think it's identifiable heraldry at all.

Sorry!

David

The closest to this crest I could find in Fairbairn's Crests was the family of Sitwell. Their crest is A demi-lion rampant erased sable holding between its paws an escutcheon per pale or and argent . The crest here differs in that the demi-lion is not erased, and the escutcheon is not divided per pa...

I just went through Fairbairn's Crests , and the crest listed there for Gouldsmith (from Kent), A Cornish chough proper goutty d'eau , does not match the crest on this item. A search in Fairbairn under the alternate spelling "Goldsmith" did not find any matches for the crest. The surnames ...

The only arms that I find in a quick first search in Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials is for Gouldsmith, Nantwich, co. Chester, whose arms are blazoned: Gules on a fess or between three martlets argent three fleurs-de-lis azure . I had originally supposed that the field was or (gold or yello...

This crest, Issuant from a crest coronet a demi-eagle displayed , seems to have been fairly popular, and therefore used by a number of families. I have attached an image from Fairbairn's Crests which gives a listing of the families which have used this crest. I hope this information is at least a li...

A search through Fairbairn's Crests shows the motto "Fear not" being used by Dawes, and "Fear nought" being use by Ramsay. But looking at the crests used by Dawes and Ramsay, there are no lion's heads erased , the crest here. (The Ramsays used mostly unicorn's and horse's heads; ...

There is no crest on this achievement of arms. (A crest is normally placed atop the helmet, rather like the crests of certain species of birds.) The motto looks like "Dum vigilo parr" [While I watch ...] I was unable to find this motto in Fairbairn's Crests , but Fairbairn does give "...

You are most welcome! Happy that I could be of some small assistance!

David

Fairbairn's Crests gives:

Higgs or Higges: A buck's head gules attired or pierced through the neck with an arrow proper headed or feathered argent.

That is the only name which I have found associated with this specific crest.

David