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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 83973, member: 111&quot;]It is a wholesale catalog, like most other vendor catalogs of the era, and marketing to retailers rather than the hospitality trade, most companies had separate catalogs for their hotelware, with silverplate the standard for even the finest of establishments, as with the shakers shown from the Hotel Windsor Melbourne - in addition to the extra cost, sterling simply wouldn&#039;t hold up to heavy commercial use and cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do find those numbers a bit puzzling - large households would sometimes number the silverware to keep track of it, but that seems unlikely in this case, and they were clearly struck at the factory since the same distinctive &#039;5&#039; punch was used.&nbsp; Perhaps some short-lived, time-wasting, management-ordered production monitoring...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl</p><p><br /></p><p>The cut below is from the same catalog, showing the sets &#039;288&#039; and &#039;382&#039; mentioned, for 12 and 6 piece peppers, in somewhat nicer boxes than the later S&amp;P set shown in Susan&#039;s first link:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]21407[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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