salt shaker

[Varouge]

Hello All,
One of my friends gave me two of these salt shakers, he doesn’t remember how he came to own them, I think they are silver but I am not sure, they have a stamp of sterling on the bottom with a numbers B255 there is a word sterling on the other side and if I am identifying it correctly there is a hallmark of some kind X-X-Y. The size of the saltshaker is approximately 3 inches long.
Can anyone help me with these salt shakers?
I thank you very much.
Jon

[admin]

Hi Jon,
We'll need a larger image of the mark.

Thanks, Tom

[Varouge]

I hope this would help, i tried to take close picture of the salt shaker.
thank you
Jon

[admin]

Much better, thanks. Hard to read as it is an incomplete stamping, but I believe it is the mark the Roger Williams Silver Co. see->
American Marks W

Regards, Tom

ps. The style of the shaker looks somewhat later than 1913, when Gorham acquired RW, I think Gorham may have continued to use the mark.