Can somebody tell me about this fork

I’m unsure what the symbols mean. Anybody have any information on it?

 

How do I upload multiple pictures.

 

Silver lovers will love this too! I do!

 

<3 flipper

 

I paid $5, too much?

 

Silverplate, British, manufacturer unidentified. See the upper right corner of this page. http://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverUNI2.html#UNI3288

There is no significance to the B in diamond versus A in diamond shape.

 

It's either a lemon serving fork or lettuce serving fork. See the info for each on this page. https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Utensils/ServL1.html

 

Does anybody know the age/value?

 

We don't do values here. But now that you know what it is you can search places like eBay for sold examples (regardless of who made them.) Just make sure you do not search for sterling.

Total guess on age - 1920s ?

 

Search for silver plated?

 

Exactly, as I said above, yours is silver plated.

 

Copy, I’m new to this and just wanted to make sure I was tracking correctly.

 

A lemon fork would be small, a lettuce fork much larger with a long handle - no size is given, but it looks to me more like a place fork, maybe luncheon or dinner, tines bent fairly recently to form what is usually called a 'baked potato fork' - they were factory produced by a few U.S. firms in the early 20th century by modifying place forks, as shown in the link below, either the two outer tines removed and center tines splayed out, or the two center tines removed and the outer tines twisted with tips curved out, both designs intended to pierce the potato without breaking it, the splaying or twists intended to keep it from slipping off the fork. Despite one like this also being shown on the link below, the tines being awkwardly bent outward is not anything that would have been factory done, though Tiffany did produce a similar serving fork with four slender tines, almost certainly also a modified place fork, but the tines curved gently outward and the shoulders of the fork decorative - though those are often called baked potato forks, they might have actually been sold as something else (my copy of 'Tiffany Silver Flatware' is packed away at the moment and can't recall if this form was addressed)...

https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Utensils/ServB1.html




Silver dealers like replacements and others also currently do modifications:




Tiffany 8" dinner fork:



Tiffany 8" serving fork:




~Cheryl

 

Thanks for the info!

 

And the letter M on the front of the handle is a monogram that personalizes it for the owner. Somebody who has a name with initial M may be interested in buying it.