Sterling silver pie server?

[Beachkid23]

I don't think that's really what it is unless it's for a Barbie doll. But it looks like a pie server and it has foreign hallmarks on it but I'm not sure what it could possibly be? It was in with some sterling silver Salt spoons but I am literally clueless as to what this thing might be? Thoughts? it is 2 3/4" high, 3 grams in weight.






Here is a picture of all of the ones I bought. Traded a $20 bill for them. (Some eye candy)



Then $25 for this one...

 

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[vwayne1]

It's a corn cob holder.

 

[vwayne1]

Literally

 

[Beachkid23]

That sucks! I only have one!

 

[JimDon]

Nice collection of sterling miniatures. The pie server looks like a cheese knife to me.

 

[Beachkid23]

I can say it lays flat. On one side. Where I think the corn holders, the spike is in the center? I dunno.

 

[tamrock]

Could be a piece to a sterling manicure set maybe an olive pick.

 

[austin]

That sucks! I only have one!

It is a corn cob holder, at least according to Google.

 

[mojjax]

I think the Anchor means it's from Birmingham ( GB )

 

[randazzo1]

It may be a ceremonial presentation trowel from a building project at turn of the century. I've also seen masonic pieces but they are usually engraved

 

[captain flintlock]

Great score!! The cheese knife is from Birmingham England and the "g" is the date code for 1906.

 

[Beachkid23]

Great score!! The cheese knife is from Birmingham England and the "g" is the date code for 1906.

Awesome! Thank you very much! I'll have to compare some of the markings because I bet a lot of them have the same kind of marks.. Seeing them, they're not marked 925 but they have all the English hallmarks.

 

[Beachkid23]

Btw, here are some other pictures.

 

[2Minnesota]

Could be a palate trowel for mixing paints. Or a make up trowel for the waxy stuff women used to wear on their faces. Cool little piece BK!

 

[Beachkid23]

Sterling silver miniature trowel book mark.. I would not have guessed this in 100 years! Lol

http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/151809978970

 

[TKgal]

My guess is a letter opener

 

[2Minnesota]

I thought book mark too but I couldn't see that yours was split to slide over a page. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=290891727450&globalID=EBAY-US

 

[Red-Coat]

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

Very nice little collectible but not a corn-cob holder, I feel. It’s sterling hallmarked for Birmingham, 1906 and corn-on-the cob as a vegetable accompaniment was almost unheard of in Britain until after WWII. The maker mark is partially obscured, but it looks like it might be ‘C & N’ unserifed in a rectangular cartouche, which would be for Crisford & Norris Ltd. of Vyse Street, Birmingham (registered January 1896).

They made a wide variety of small silver decorative utility items, including bookmarks in trowel-form as shown below:

However, the bookmarks usually have a ‘slot’ in which the marked page is held and I suspect the posted item was made as a letter opener… but note the price being asked for the bookmark I posted.

 

[tamrock]

We don't see beachkid anymore.

 

[galenrog]

It is a corn cob holder, at least according to Google.

Google? Really?

Time for more coffee.