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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 575760, member: 111&quot;]If selling, should be offered as a &#039;bride&#039;s basket&#039;, called that because they were popular wedding gifts, but this item was originally sold as a berry dish (wider, shallower designs were sold as cake baskets) - don&#039;t believe I&#039;ve run across any items actually marketed as bride&#039;s baskets before the early 20th century, and then they were taller, narrower pieces intended to hold flowers.&nbsp; Some, but not all, silverplate manufacturers voluntarily discontinued the use of the &#039;Quadruple Plate&#039; mark in the early 20th century, due to the huge numbers of items so marked that had very light plating, resulting in rapid wear, the Federal Trade Commission cited a number of companies well into the 20th century.&nbsp; Can&#039;t recall Pairpoint&#039;s involvement in anything concerning quadruple plate and don&#039;t have time to dig into my files, but this piece would date prior to that anyway, from the 1890s.&nbsp; Have seen others that just hadn&#039;t been polished in decades and had a heavy layer of tarnish, some will polish up again, but often the plating is removed along with the tarnish (if selling, I&#039;d probably just leave it, for some reason, a lot of folks like that look) - the nice bowl looks original and would have almost certainly been Mt. Washington glass, though not one of their fancier pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is probably the most similar I found in the 1894 Pairpoint catalog (number 4713, yours is 4705), it has a fancier insert...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173872[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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