I Started Polishing...

...some of the silver plate from the great town house clearout. Thought you might like to see what there is. Most is plated on copper. I know silver plate is worth nada, but I'm going to keep a couple of pieces and what to do with the rest???

There is the Gorham bride's basket, but I posted that one on ebay's Antiques board a while back. The rest are:
low tazza: IS Old English Reproduction, WMMTS (whatever that means) G73
footed bowl: Made in England, lion rampant in a circle mark,
covered butter dish with insert: Wm A Rogers, Canada
plain tray: Birks Regency Plate
monogrammed tray (my grandmother liked to do that, sigh): menorah in a circle symbol with 51 impressed on edge
2 pix of details
vase: Eldona England (epns)

 

WMMTS = White Metal Mounts (meaning that applied decorative pieces, often the handles or fancy edges, are not silverplated, but made of "white metal" like nickel silver.)

The "menorah in circle" is that mark of Ellis-Barker Silver Companies of Birmingham, England.

 

And you've done a very nice job of the polishing!!

 

Look at the Charles Howard Collins mark in this link to see if it matches your "lion rampant in circle."

http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_C2.html

 

Hi Wendy,
Love love love the trays and the vase. Your polishing is superb.
greg

 

Gee, thanks for the kudos on the polishing! I do try!
Yep, Charles Howard Collins and thanks also for the WMMTS (they're little paw feet) and the Ellis Barker ID.
The vase is actually re-plated. My mother had a nicer Sheffield reproduction silver plated vase, but it was stolen. So, one year for her b-day, I went to a store here that repaired, re-plated and polished silverware and bought this. I like it's simplicity. I'm keeping it, I think.