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Have been sorting and packing up my Mom's stuff and found this piece I'd given her decades ago (she loved pierced work) - early 20th century, made by the Roger Williams Silver Co., sterling silver with an oak base, measures 7-5/8"/19.4 cm X 3-3/4"/9.5 cm X 1-5/8"/4.1 cm. They're not a particularly common item, sometimes misidentified (also marketed for dual uses), probably found more often in silverplate than sterling, and they were produced in other materials as well...











~Cheryl

 

Visiting card tray?

 

Hmm, my first thought would be vanity tray.

 

My first thought was a bread basket but too small.

 

Cracker tray?

 

Cracker tray?

edit: janettekay beat me to the punch!

 

No one has it yet - should add that the wooden base is not always a feature of these items, actually most are made entirely of one material...

~Cheryl

 

how's about a spoon tray.....!

 

A spoon tray could come in handy, I believe Cheryl has one or two spoons lying around somewhere.

 

Good job, Komo! Mom knew what it was, but I found it stuffed in the back of her liquor cabinet, tarnished and filled with glass swizzle sticks.

And yes, AJ, I do have a few spoons lying around...


With a dozen assorted teaspoons:




With a dozen of the same teaspoons:




These ads are all for silverplate spoon trays:

1917:



1897:




1897:



~Cheryl

 

My Mom, would use her glass and silver and porcelane for exactly what it was meant for......my Aunt ..as well....with finer items.....
a spoon tray....was not unknown to me in my youth....
but I always ended up playing with the pickle fork.....

 

We had a porcelain spoon tray at home. I guess we weren't as posh.

 

Spoon tray just might be the 'winning ticket'!!! LOVE it with your assorted spoons in it, DW!!!

 

I would have never guessed that at all. Live and learn.

 

Mom, like me, kept her stray spoons in an EAPG spooner (the pens on her desk also in a spooner) - the one on the left, with a swan, was hers (she had a large water pitcher in the same pattern), the demitasse spoons in front are in a silver deposit sugar:




~Cheryl

 

They do look elegant.

 

My family were too broke for fancy silver spoon holders. EAPG for the likes of them. (LOL)

 

Coffeespoons were kept in our christening mugs.

 

Someone finally found a use for those things.