What would you use this for?

I don't know. I don't even know if this goes together or if it is missing something. It came together like this. So what is it? It's so shallow what could you possibly keep in it?



And this what is this? Does it go together? It was wrapped up together. Some sort of fork.

 

The fork looks like a lemon fork & the other piece is a wine coaster.

Peggy

 

Okay so they aren't together than. LOL! A wine coaster. I would have never figured that out. I thought maybe the fork was for lobster or something but couldn't figure out the other piece. LOL!

 

I had to look up lemon forks. LOL! I have never seen a lemon fork interesting. Thanks

 

I think the first item had a glass bowl and you just have the base and a cover that probably went to something else.

 

Depending on size, it could be a lettuce fork. I have one that measures 9.5" in length.
http://silvercollect.org/flatware-articles/antique-silver-lettuce-forks

 

That fork looks like a Polish back scratcher??? )

 

That's not nice.

 

I have to be honest and say... I don't get it? May be best.

 

Well considering I had a lemon fork with a wine coaster that is a good possibility. LOL!

 

Seems likely a crude Polish 'joke'.

 

Could the first one be for snuff?

 

I have to agree with Bev. There would have been a glass bowl which set in the
well of the large piece with the lid covering the bowl. Depending on where it was made, it could be a Pyrex bowl for example.

 

The lid and the base don't match. I have a butter dish with the base & cover, no glass insert, and they match.

 

Kasper - any marks on the underside of that first piece?

Somehow, although I agree on the glass bowl that should sit in the center circle, I don't think the "lid" goes with the base. I once bought a soup tureen shaped silver plated item that "came with" a lid that sort of fit but was absolutely not original to the bowl. I pointed that out to the guy running the sale and asked if he would take something off the price and keep the lid (to see if he could find the base to which it belonged somewhere in the hoard.) Nope, take the whole thing or leave them both. So I decided to take it and eventually threw the lid into a box going to GW. I only wanted the bottom for flowers anyway.

 

yes here is the bottom of the dish piece and just for the heck of it the bottom of the unknown lid piece.

 

Well, the bottom is likely by Thomas Wilkinson & Sons of England. The little figure above the letters looks like their "Pelican Works" logo.

http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverWZdue.html


I take it the "Unknown lid" has no marks at all?

 

Correct there are no marks on the lid.

 

Most lids on silverplated "sets" don't have marks, only the "bottom piece" (in my modest experience.)

With no underside "lip" to hold it onto whatever it went on, there definitely needed to be handles (to fit the two cut-outs) on it's "match."

 

Found this:
possibly T. Willis & Son(s), 65 Northampton St, Birmingham
Birmingham 1887 hallmark
courtesy www.acsilver.co.uk