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Heh - likely it was the backward 'K' that caused the problem...

~Cheryl

Hi - this piece is not American, nor Art Nouveau to my eye - it appears to read 'Π97', have seen similar marks on fairly recent Greek production, but perhaps others will take a look...

~Cheryl

Size is always helpful, but it looks like a marriage, with someone setting a salt cellar on top of the stand for a tea strainer...

~Cheryl

Eh, I'm sure that most who've dealt in silver for many years understand that feeling of just 'knowing' when picking up a piece, but have never known anyone who identified silver by its temperature in their hand. As said, silver has a high thermal conductivity, and since copper is almost as conductiv...

Rainwater shows those Robbins marks as in use circa 1900-1926, but I think more likely they came into use after 1912 when the firm became the ''The Robbins Co.', and have seen it on pieces that probably date as late as the '30s and perhaps even into the early '40s. Can't make out what the emblem on ...

Hi - welcome to the forums. It's Norwegian, and you have the marks upside down, it's '925S' indicating sterling silver, the maker's mark is a backward 'K' for Edvin Kristiansen/Kristiansen & Lande - please see the second to last post on this thread: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t...

Welcome - noting the size is helpful in identifying an item's purpose...

~Cheryl

The image in the link for 'Kings III' is actually "King George' - and pieces can change over the years, since you mention the patent date isn't present on yours, it's most likely later production...

~Cheryl

King George:


Kings III:


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Hi - welcome to the forums. Can only say that I agree that the pattern shown as 'New Queens' is actually 'King George'. Carpenter and the JCK Index also show 'New Queens' as introduced in 1895...

~Cheryl

Not sure I understand your question, the item you show appears to be a tomato or cucumber server in Gorham's 'King George' pattern, introduced in 1894 - I'm not familiar with a 'King Charles' pattern, and 'Kings III', introduced circa 1885, while somewhat similar, is not at all the same as 'King Geo...

Try an internet search for "fourchettes à melon argent" and see what turns up - can probably dig up some catalog images when I have time...

~Cheryl

Looks like a melon fork to me...

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Thanks again!

~Cheryl

Thanks, Trev! Early 19th century?

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My eyesight is so bad anymore, can't make much sense out of the marks, which appear to be the same struck thrice, so I turned four pics four directions - any ideas? Thanks so much... ~Cheryl https://i.postimg.cc/W45VHVrw/toddyladlebaleen-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rwcK68dB/toddyladlebaleen-2.jpg htt...

Durgin's 'Fairfax' pattern, introduced in 1910, continued in production by Gorham...

https://www.925-1000.com/ax_durgin.html

~Cheryl

Workmanship and marks are typical of modern Turkish silver...

~Cheryl

I've been using postimage.org for quite a while now, on my Android phone, laptop and desktop - I'm not registered, simply open the site, click on 'Choose image', my files are pulled up, click on my picture, after it uploads, scroll down to 'Hotlink for forums', click on the blue 'copy/clipboard' ico...

Find a Friedrich Christopher Zwanzig (1822-1889) in Schleswig, as well as his son Friedrich Christoph Zwanzig (b.1857)...

(Thank you Theo)

~Cheryl