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Hi Pippi! The reason it looks plated is because it is, but with gold. Many pieces of late Victorian silver jewellery feature touches of gold to enhance the look. It also should be set with two small stones in the eye sockets. Probably garnets, though they could also have been rhinestones imitating e...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm still a bit mystified by it, and I've come to the conclusion that it cant be for anything pickled or stored in brine, as it would destroy the steel spring. It must be for boiled beets, jerusalem artichokes, and other types of round, slippery veg. I'm still open to mor...

Many thanks for that. I thought that could be the case, as all references I've seen show no standardisation of this mark. One looked like a cupcake with a cherry!

http://img101.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2007/04/02/dsc00803-460a4i689.jpg I recently acquired this odd serving fork, which could be just an elaborate olive fork, but I'm not 100%. It's marked only 830S, and that plus the style lead me to think it could be Norwegian. As you can see, there are two...

Help! I recently acquired a pair of old suger tongs and i'm having trouble with the mark. They are 800 silver, and what appears at first glance to be a trefoil, or club, with a very thin cresent thisclose to it. I suspect they may be German, and I've noticed that the crown and crescent mark varies a...