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Please define what you mean by hand-carved? an engraved mark? or one doen with an electric pencil? or do you mean a hand made maker's mark punch?

Most likely it was parts of a set with at least a creamer and sugar bowl, possibly a coffee, waste and tray.

Your pot is properly marked for the American market. Since the pot and stand are hinged together the law allows for only one mark on the item. just as the lid and spirit lamp are unmarker as it is thought they were "fitted" to the pot and stand when they were made and wouldn't "fit&qu...

A punch strainer?

LOL Wev. Butter vs. tobacco, sounds like a good way to start a war at a medical convention...

Those dents looks small but deep, as if it hit something when dropped. The metal has been stretched into the dent and needs to be compressed to smooth the surface and match the etrernal curves. A burnisher or wooden spoon if possible) on the inside will remove the shallow dents (as seen on the right...

Those dents will need a pro with a snarling iron to remove them from the inside. It looks like a sugar bowl to me.

That is the oddest one I have ever seen. I use one like the far right bottom row, it was never gilt-lined. The base is not a bell but a weight, otherwise it would tip over from being top-heavy due to the spoons.

Trev you stumped us all, good show.

That it is gilt lined is throwing me...

Does the back unscrew?

It appears to be a display stand that would have held a carved ivory or jade panel.

That is a piece of Wm. Drugin silver, unsure the pattern.

That would be on a list of those holding a Royal Warrent. There may be a listing at Goldsmith's Hall though I have not seen one on their website.

The royal arms may be engraved on an item made by anyone, for any reason, so its existance does not specify a royal posession.

One mark is doubled, the other at too mch of an angle. A typical Gorham mark is a 3 piece stamp and this looks singular.

Congrats Cheryl!

I use mineral oil on older pieces (pre-1900) and butcher's wax on newer pieces. I also never immerse them when cleaning.

Unsure who made them but EP stands for electro-plate.

I would use it to eat cheese. the hollow for shaving it and the tines to pick it up.

I believe thi 92 is a mistamping of the quality mark. That ring appears to be C. the late 1960's.

My best guess from the pictures is a tourist piece made between the wars (1920-1939) in the Middle East. It would have to be tested for metal content. The stones appear to be rose cut garnets of iffy quality and the enamel is in very rough shape. The carving was done quickly and cheaply in, most lik...