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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 159588, member: 111&quot;]The patent was issued to Edwin L. Brittin, he was plant manager and salesman at Derby silver at the time - possibility it was never a named pattern.&nbsp; There is an 1847 Rogers pattern with hanging birds called &#039;Game&#039; that was introduced in 1892.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bakersgma - I&#039;m not at home to look, but might also find the same pattern with a Rogers &amp; Brittin mark or Holmes &amp; Edwards, and below is a link to a set of forks bearing a &#039;Wm. Rogers &amp; Son&#039; mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>The patent number is D8910, showing forks with a rabbit, prairie-chicken, and woodcock, your nut-picks appear to show a woodcock and squirrel (appropriately), and the linked forks appear to have a pair of ducks.&nbsp; Associated patents are #D8909, with a &#039;Chinaman&#039; bearing a yoke with hanging game, and #D8911, a fish knife with hanging fish, and a neriad riding a sea-horse and dolphin on the blade.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-6-William-Rogers-Silverplate-Forks-Patented-1876-With-Ducks-Lilies-Corn-/162118111533?hash=item25befe112d:g:ESEAAOSwNuxXcI2q" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-6-William-Rogers-Silverplate-Forks-Patented-1876-With-Ducks-Lilies-Corn-/162118111533?hash=item25befe112d:g:ESEAAOSwNuxXcI2q" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-6-William-Rogers-Silverplate-Forks-Patented-1876-With-Ducks-Lilies-Corn-/162118111533?hash=item25befe112d:g:ESEAAOSwNuxXcI2q</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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