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May I be so bold as to suggest you might get an answer quicker if you provided a little more information?
A picture of the tray would be useful. Your own observations about material used, size and where you acquired it should not be discounted completely.
You see, generally the last thing anybody evaluating sliver does is look at the mark. Indeed it is usually used just to confirm observable data.
I take it you denied yourself the opportunity to read any of the thousands of other posts on this forum many of which say basically the same thing: post the entire picture and tell us what you know yourself from common sense observations.
All you show is a crown which is probably a trademark not a hallmark and four gothic letters the first two of which are legible and the last two of which each could be one of four gothic letters because they are worn or badly stamped.
You could even tell us what you deduce the four gothic letters were. The first is S the second is G and the next two are…?
Or you could go do what you are asking this forum to do, which is use AI to search every single last century silver plate maker using four gothic letters the first two of which are S and G as a trade mark.
A task which has more to do with memory test and eye strain than knowledge about silver.
CRWW
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Sorry, I didn’t intend to insult you. The trays were donated to the Settlement Home for children which will be sold in our annual garage sale. Proceeds support the children’s home in Texas. I’m just a volunteer for the organization and we try to identify and price donated items for the annual sale.
I’ll post a photo of the tray.
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This is a tough one. I can at least tell you what it’s not, at least as a starting point. It’s not sterling silver from the U.K. (those aren’t proper British silver hallmarks), and not sterling silver from North America (sterling from Canada, the U.S., or Mexico would be clearly marked, “STERLING.”). The marks don’t look like any of the standard silver markings from continental Europe, either.
So, probably just electroplate, which contains virtually no precious metal - decorative value only. But from where, and when, I can’t say - the marks don’t look familiar, and some quick searching hasn’t coughed up any likely suspects. Difficult, because there were hundreds, or even thousands, of makers of decorative electroplate, and the marking was almost completely unregulated. A bit of a free-for-all. 
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Looks to be in excellent condition. Take a look at the “sold” listings on eBay for silverplate serving tray. The values vary a lot, but rarely top $100. The ones that bring the highest prices seem to be the largest, and are often clearly labeled by one of the better-known makers. Most sell for something in the $50 range.
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Without unnecessary speculation and waffling:
GOLDFEDER SILVERWARE COMPANY INC - Yalesville CT
Established in 1932. Succeeded by Birmingham Silver Co.
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It’s American electroplate, not silver. See the link below for Goldfeder Silverware Co
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Beat me to it, Bart!
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I learn from the best!
A recent sale of something similar, from the same maker:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/318255347790
Click “see original listing” on that page for more info.
ETA: Too bad it’s not sterling. This massive one that sold on eBay, had it been sterling, would have had a melt value well north of $10k. 
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Indeed, a task for me. No knowledge, just eyes… Ah, these ubiquitous allusions…
Meanwhile in Poland…
Thank you all for your help with these trays. As I stated previously, I’m a volunteer for a children’s home in Texas and we volunteer exclusively to fund the home for the benefit of the children. I appreciate your expertise and I will provide more information and photos with future ID requests. I’m attaching a photo showing the scope of our sale items in the silver area from last years sale. We rarely have any history of the items donated but we try to research the unclear items and keep the sterling, silverplate, and other items straight. Your help is appreciated!
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There are several of the regulars on this site who would love to swoop down on that, jeweler’s loupe at the ready!
Best of luck with your endeavors.
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No worries. And you didn’t. You got the information you needed and the attention of all three of the most dedicated silver mark lookers up on this forum. I am often indebted to their scholarship to inform my own purchases.
More importantly for the future of your charity you may have grasped the wells to which we all head for the task of ascribing makers and their marks, enabling you to master the rudiments of the task perhaps just months ahead of AI dominating that aspect of the field completely.
CRWW
I might mention that I doubt our lords and masters of this forum would object if you plugged your charitable auction, especially if there is some decent silver in it.
I once bought a 18th century tea water heater described as a Russian samovar at another charity auction
I note my initial comment on researching this mark was not universally welcomed.
In my defence I had already identified this particular mark at least once before on this forum (see below) and decided, correctly I think, that offering suggestions on inquiry search process might be more valuable to readers than duplicating effort already expanded.
CRWW
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