Hello. I am going through a lot of my mom’s things and I keep finding questions to ask. This is a fiddle pattern serving for. Could you help me with the hallmarks?
So are you thinking Canadian plain early/mid 19th century silver? If so there are some options as I recall.
There’s some Victorian Canadian flatware showing up at auctions and it always goes well But I am aways from the shot and my ref materel.
Chistopher
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That’s what I’m thinking:
I see a sitting beaver, a humpbacked cat, a star or a flower bud, and something resembling a crown. 
Karen, try to clean this area gently. Maybe we can read the initials (circled in red).
What’s the crest?
You are not by any chance related to my optician who tells me I need to buy new spectacles off him?
I see two crests, so a marriage set.
The top is a mythical creature erased and the bottom a human wearing something vaguely oriental or middle eastern around his head.
Move your camera round so the light catches the cuts differently and you might be able to tell us.
Otherwise it’s Sir Rubalot and his intended Wyvern lady. dining in splendor in Outrement with the aid of a runclible spoon.
Sir Rubalot may well have been the provincial cousin of Sir Lancelot whose efforts to live up to his unfortunate name in the bedrooms of our nation, where another Canadian later would say the nation had no business in his attempts to get rid of fault-based divorce, made those of us who cared about such things back then dub him Sir Trendy.
CRWW
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Christopher, dear friend, I myself have to wear glasses when doing things that require precision, and I often reach for a magnifying glass… 