A blog reader purchased this item on eBay. It's from Walker & Hall and is just under 5 inches long. The seller said it was a sardine server.
The buyer wonders if this truly is a sardine server. You can't tell from the picture but the bowl slants downward. Normally, a serving piece is designed to be used with the pattern facing up. For this piece, the angle of the bowl with respect to the pattern does not make sense for a sardine server.
If you have any ideas, post a comment.
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5 comments:
Is it possible it is half of a pair of tongs? That were cut apart and were sold separately
If I did not know that this was just a single side, I would say that it was a pair of sandwich tongs. Are there any clues as to the age?
Wild conjecture here. Would it be used to skim perhaps? I'm think the cream from a cup of milk or the fat from a bowl of soup?
This looks very much like a sardine fork. Gorham made one similar in the "Royal Oak" pattern.
I need to brush up on my Victorian minutia, I had no idea such a thing existed.
http://www.thefind.com/kitchen/info-sterling-sardine-fork
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