English Sterling Condiment(?) Thing

[trdhrdr007]

Picked this up about an hour ago. Haven't looked up the hallmarks yet. Going from memory I'm thinking sterling & London. Maker's initials are LS. This came from a "professionally" run sale that had everything marked sterling priced at 4-6 times melt. This wasn't priced. The lady running it knows I buy sterling & asked if that's what this was. I'm not in the habit of telling lies but I'm also not going to do her job for her. I ended up telling her they were hallmarked but I'd have to test them to know for sure. She priced it slightly under melt. Unfortunately I didn't get any spoons with it. Obviously some sort of salt/condiment. Anyone have any idea what to call it?

 

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[jason4kstate]

Wow what a score! Looks like L Spiers with a 1867 hallmark, Birmingham mint. Top right looks like a mustard pot, the bottom is a salt cellar, the top might be for relish, and the top left looks like its for pepper but that's just a guess. Not having the spoons is not that big of a deal.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Really nice find, I'm sure in that condition worth more than melt.

Keep @ It and HH !

 

[Rodbuster209]

Great finds! You can't wrong with PM's if the price is right!

 

[Mackaydon]

It's called a condiment server; great save.
Don....

 

[vpnavy]

Nice buys. Thanks for sharing...

 

[tamrock]

Very Nice!

 

[Red-Coat]

Just doing a bit of tidying up on some older threads, mainly for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

The 1867 Birmingham Assay Office (not ‘Mint’) mark would be a letter ‘S’ but I see a gothic lower case ‘m’, which is for 1886. A gothic lower case ‘m’ would be 1867 for London, but they didn’t use the same sequence as Birmingham. L, Spiers is correct as the maker. I would expect it to do better than melt, too.