I went to dig out the regular photos. The lion passant on ours is in a little box, with the tops clipped. There is a little tick down in the middle at the bottom, the other mark, looks like a scolloped S or G...but we have never been able to figure it out as that is where it is worn....and after all, when the set was set, we have only 3 knives, and 3 forks.....and we can only see two sets of marks, the Lion Passant, and the letter one....we have never found another set of marks on it, whether they were rubbed off...as this is where one always hold a fork, and knife....not like
, as his were never worn if they were underneath...just the opposite here, these were worn on the marks, as for being held....
Anyways, i had taken the photos by a ruler--the forks are approx 9 inches long, while the knives are 11 inches long (and a bit). The crest that is on the is of one hand, which is called a "CUFFED and CUBIT HAND holding an arrow". It is my understanding, that all these crest mean something....like whether the hand is open or not, etc,etc...
God..I wish I could jam these into the
for you to see....
The shank, or back of the blade on the knives has a hump on it, and it quite wide. The Victoria and Albert Museum sent me a copy of a rare, and old silverware that they have there, and confirmed that they do not even have a set of these, and in fact, requested I go to the Royal Ontario Musuem to have the curtator look at them...but we never did, that only like 4 provinces away....
The forks are two prong, with a bulbous middle part, where the joint meets the silver. I was also told by the V & A Museum that it was rare to find a set intact, as i guess the knife/fork part of the flatware is steel, and in those days, they would not stay too well put in the silver end...
Anyways, I must be boring you with-out digital pixs...and these are in the safe, under lock and key....
Topic: Silver Ware approx 1750 (Read 3582 times)