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I bought the following multi-compartment container recently. It only weighs 24 grams total, while the container itself is just bigger than 1.5 inches by 1 inch, so the construction is lighter weight than one might expect from just looking at it. I'm wondering if it's old Scandinavian or more recent ...

Trev., thank you for that wonderful information. You've enhanced my enjoyment of these beautiful knife rests. I think this motif that is featured in so many Yogya pieces is particularly suited to serve as the endpiece of these knife rests, so knife rests are a particularly aesthetically pleasing for...

Two matching Yogya knife rests, 42.7 grams total, 3 inches long each, maker mark "TS" - I would like to know the identity and working dates of the maker so as to have any idea of the age of the knife rests, though I realize that all Yogya silver is 20th century. Thanks in advance! http://i...

Oel, I am so appreciative of the information you provided. I agonized over the dates 1818, 1827, and 1828 as possibilities, so I defer to your superior expertise in deciding amongst those possibilities, and what you said about moving away from the French lozenge also makes 1818 the most logical. I h...

I recently acquired the cup below; it weighs 46.5 grams and is 2.75 inches tall. It bears the Dutch date letter for 1828, and the assay office code on Minerva's helmet looks like a "C" - it's the same assay office code letter that's depicted on Minerva's helmet in example B. in the "E...

Instead of a barometer, I see something like a slide rule, and I wonder if it has something to do with the Caesar Cipher, an encryption techinique Caesar used to outwit his enemies. I see a crown and scepter (or snake-topped caduceus) , or the 3 snakes may be a reference to the mode of death chosen ...

Julius Caesar with common Roman motifs.

I think I'm talking to myself and answering my own question, but in case anyone else is interested and happens to stumble on this post, I just bought an 1888 London Wakely & Wheeler magnum champagne caddy (I think it's a caddy) that's 8.25 inches in diameter, 1.375 inches high, and weighs 292 gr...

A friend of mine found the following incredible piece by Adolf Zethelius, Pehr's son, and it features the same face mask. There are also multiple examples online in museums, etc., in which Pehr also used the same mask. http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168/okchris67/adolphzethelius.jpg

I recently acquired this 9.5 inch-tall, 17.35 Troy ounce, 1798 sugar urn with bas-relief female faces on each side. The marks pictured are on the underside of the base, near the pierced gallery, but there is an identical set of matching marks on the inside edge of the rim of the lid for the high-pro...

Booksearch, may we see the hallmarks? William Comyns was an important late 19th-century Birmingham and London silversmith, so it would be interesting to see the maker of your sugar sifter, although your sifter would probably pre-date his years of production. William Comyns & Sons also, of course...

Yes, Larkfield, Dognose beat me to it, so that's a good thing, as he is an admin. His thread certainly does pertain to the portraits to which I was referring. The Elms Clapton residence of the sitters in the portraits might not have been mentioned in that discussion thread, so doing so might shed li...

There is an active listing in an online auction site for an 1826 portrait miniature of William Bateman and wife. I know that linking to a commercial site is not generally in keeping with the policy of this board, but this is an exceptional situation, as this likeness may well be one of a kind; it wo...

Chawner & Co.-George William Adams, London, 1862, 12.5 inches (the slice) & 9 and 7/8ths inches (the fork), 272 grams total. - There's an anomaly regarding the Old English/Hanoverian tip of the handle: when the pieces are laid upright on a table, the fork has an upturned terminus of the hand...

Wow, fascinating info, JBA and Oel! I read somewhere on this site that in the Georgian period, the shape of the bottom of the punch often varied depending on which particular letter of the alphabet the date letter was; "F" was almost never in a rounded bottom or the opposite - it was almos...

I was eventually convinced the chasing on my London egg vinaigrette was not contemporary with the date of manufacture, so I wanted to find out if the same is true of my new London goblet (194 grams, 6 and 1/8th inches tall); I was wondering why the hallmarking wasn't done to accommodate the position...

I acknowledge that I haven't provided a sharp, close-up photo of the only mark on my egg-shaped vinaigrette, but it doesn't seem logical, or possible, that the thin, sheet metal of the egg could be so highly wrought on the exterior without affecting the maker's mark on the corresponding interior if ...

I wanted to share an absolutely fascinating silver history article, Flashback: The Silver of Captain Tobias Lear of Portsmouth , by Stephen Decatur, that relates to the above discussion only in that Samuel Meriton I (the father of the maker of my egg vinaigrette, above) fashioned a cream pitcher tha...

JBA, I truly appreciate your comments, but you wrote that you've, " never seen an example of a chased egg nutmeg grater! "?? I shall privately send you 3 examples of chased, 18th-century nutmeg graters, all 3 of which have chasing strikingly similar to mine, and in one case, nearly identic...

JBA , did you happen to miss seeing the pictures that the admin reduced to links showing the inner screen? http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168/okchris67/vinaigretteeggpic7-1.jpg http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q168/okchris67/vinaigretteeggpic4-1.jpg This egg has a beautifully made, hole-pier...