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Hi Pat,
Could it be for holding the roast beef whilst its being carved?
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Hi Miles, The anomalies of single makers marks are often a matter of conjecture, your spoon appears to be of high quality and the closest mark that I could find was that of Thomas Heming (Grimwade 2797) the mark he lists was not taken from the register but from a dish, so one must allow for some dis...

Hi Pat,
A cigar cutter, match holder and ashtray combined?
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Hi Tom and Miles,
Thanks for that, its certainly a curious object, I've never seen one before,
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Hi, It is a little difficult to be certain, but it would appear from your drawing that the hallmark is Sheffield 1906, so date wise it would be OK for your box, sorry I cannot help with the maker but I'm sure someone else can,
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Hi Miles, What is the purpose of what appears to be a slide on the side, is it for cleaning maybe ?
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Hi Beth, The EPNS stands for Electro Plated Nickel Silver and the Reg. No. would be for 1905, hope this helps.
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Hi , The Mcferlan mark is I feel too small, he did enter a larger mark as a plateworker but this was not until 1786. Originally the registers at Goldshiths Hall only seperated large and smallworkers, after 1773 this distinction was ended and new categories i.e. plateworkers, smallworkers, spoonmaker...

Yes I agree with Miles, a Kovsch, I believe they were used for drinking wine.
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Yes, I agree with Pat, it is always difficult to differientate between the s for 1917 and the S for 1942 they are so similar in all respects as are the lion passants and anchors and outlines of these two sequences, but the mark does seem to be that of William Aitken so it looks like its 1917, regard...

Hi Adrian, I agree with Pat on the dating of the watch case, presumably the case is a later replacment with period style engraving?
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Hi Tom, Excuse my ignorance but is whalebone (baleen) a term, and not actually the bones of a Whale? if so where does it come from?
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Hi Miles, I suspect then, they used a variety of ingredients of whatever there was to hand. Sailors when staining their scrimshaw carvings used to use soot and oil. For the staining of whalebone (baleen) they probably used vegetable dyes, I presume they twisted them by steaming like they do with ben...

I would say for mint, horseradish sauce etc.
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Hi, Depending on how big it is ,a sauce or cream ladle,
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Excellent Pat, I would never have guessed,
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Hi Arlowood, I'm afraid to say that they look very much like platers marks to me,
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The more I think the more confused I become, I thought Kit cracked it with the brandy warmer theory, but the piece would have to be of huge proportions to enable a glass to fit under the tap, unless of course it was designed to rest on the edge of a table, also what surprises me is that it is made f...

Hi Pat,
Could it be a port decanter?
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Hi, How large is this basket? it looks as if had a handle through the centre, I suspect the two smaller holes were there so that pins on the handle would locate and prevent it unscrewing whist being carried, the marks are electo-platers marks and the 234 is probably a pattern number, if you post a s...