This makersmark is inscribed, most likely with an electric engraving tool. Since it is not a registered "trade mark" it wouldn't be listed in most reference books. Sorry. .
EPNS = Electro Plated Nichel Silver. only silver content is the plated layer. Date could only be determined as to when the design was registered, date of fabrication can be anytime after the registration.
I thought of butter, but then thought, "It is an odd shape for a butter-dish and for the period there is no holder for the master-butterknife (though those "feathers on the prow might have been meant as a rest.) Salt would make it a more realistic looking birchbark canoe..." Looking a...
Wild guess here... a master salt, shaped like a birch bark canoe? Picturing what it would look like filled with salt making the glass appear as white. Would the salt spoons have been shaped like paddles? .
This is very odd, that symbol on the treetrunk appears to be a pit-saw. the rectangular frame holds the thin blade (the wiggling line in the center) under tention. the handles on the ends are used by the sawyers to pull the blade through the wood. One sawyer would stand atop the log (or a platform a...
The cypher is a W and an H. Notice how the uprights of the H on either side of the W mirror each other with the cross-member is broken to show it interweaves and goes behind the W.
Remember a properly prepaired grapefruit would be served after a knife had been passed around the fruit between the flesh and the peel, then most good cooks would cut between the sections so little effort would be needed to lift individual sections from the rind. Sort of like serving supremes of fru...
I have seen items like this used on Europian cloaks or capes. The buttons look lie they could be formed from coins which might be a lead to the country of origin. The monogram appears to be much newer than the origional engraving. .
That is a sauce ladle, juices and fats are dipped from the well of a carving board and exit through the hole, the hole is closed before the floating fat can escape.
At first I thought a cigar server, cigars in the opening, taper to light them, liveried servent carrying it from gentleman to gentleman around the table... however: why would a cigar server need what appear to be inkwells on either side so my next thought is a note dispencer. Paper in the center com...
It appears to be the base for either a glass insert or possibly a ceramic piece. I have seen items like this made to replace a broken foot on early export ceramics. A teapot ring would usually be taller and would not need the handles as they would be awkward when lifting and returning the teapot to ...
A place setting would include from 3-pieces (knife, fork and spoon) to over 50 pieces. Today the basic place setting would include 5 pieces, a dinner knife, a teaspoon, a cream soup/consume spoon, a dinner fork and a salad fork. The total number of items in a place setting has always been dictated b...
Willpower, you watch-chain appears to have been marked in London in 1997. The date-letter has to many distinctive details IE. the crook on the upper left arm and the single center bar for it to be a perfect match.
That item should not be weighted, it is just a nice heavy piece of silver. As for the date I would have to check my book, but they did use pitch as filler in candlesticks and vases even back in the 1870's.
Buckler, the Maker's-mark WE appears to have 2 issues, the top of the E (which shows a shadow of the missing upper arm) could have been clogged with a bit of metal. The only way a stamp would leave that outline would be if a piece is missing from the edge of the stamp. As the entire outline is irreg...