Who made this dish?

[Ajax]

It was probably made in 1897 a shallow repousee dish in the shape of a shell 12.5 x 10.5 cms.
Has four ball (bun) feet and weighs about 2.25 ounces on the kitchen scales!
The Hallmark to me reads solid silver, London, 1897. The makers initials appear to be GJ DF

Rather before cigarettes, so perhaps for sweets, nibbles or nuts?

Any ideas about this please and particularly if anything is known about the silversmith?
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[Gerryl]

Your makers are George Maudsley Jackson & David Landsborough Fullerton silverworkers.

Regards

Gerald
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[admin]

The form is called a butter shell.

Tom
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[Ajax]

My wife being sharper than I am said it was a butter dish!

I suppose I should have thought of childhood days when I liked to be allowed to mke butter balls with wooden butter pats for special occasions, though I'm quite sure they appeared on the table on a china dish.
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