House razing find

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Found this tray in a small walk-in attic of a house being torn down. I thought it was a cheap Indian import with missing inlay and bad plating but liked the design. I took a good look at it last weekend and went over it with one of those mr. clean pads and thought- hmmm. So I did a little googling and I'm pretty sure that this is an Erhard and Sohne art nouveau tray of some type- probably part of a set since one corner is engraved with the initials "GK". Here a couple of pics before and after a couple of hundred q-tips,some lemon juice and a bit of polishing.
 

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Beautiful pattern!
 

Thanks- Yes it is- I was hoping somebody had seen this pattern before and could tell me a little bit about it- I don't believe that these were one-of-a-kind type designs so others are probably out there but I haven't found one like it- yet.
 

That's really nice. defiantly art nouveau.
 

awesome find--from back when even middle America had class
 

what a before and after! you have a great eye to find such a nice piece
 

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