Is this sterling silver? And is it a ford car company hallmark?

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It’s a weird cup shape item and the bottom has these two hallmarks
Is it silver? And did Ford make silver items?

Thanks

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This doesn’t look like a Ford logo to me. Take a more precise photo of the signature and the entire item.
HRW Fink.

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I don’t have the item I saw it an antique shop so I need to go there again for more pictures

Is this silver?

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Is it silver - it looks like it…

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Probably Finks Jewellers in Raleigh NC. The company is still operative. Its website says Nathan Fink started the operation in the 1930’s.

But, you are right, it does look the same as the Ford trademark…

Now, “Fink” is probably an Ellis Island official’s version of Finklestein and, given Henry’s outspoken views on semitic-language speaking people whom he blamed for everything from jazz to short skirts in the Dearborn Independent, it’s unlikely he copied the jeweller’s mark.

Then there’s “Gussie” Fink-Nottle*,a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of PG Wodehouse, a lifelong friend of Bertie Wooster.

Wodehouse, who died in 1975 at age 93, was long under a cloud for having made broadcasts in Nazi Berlin in 1941, after being released from detention as an enemy alien. These broadcasts, designed to be funny, infuriated listeners when thousands of his compatriots had been killed in German air raids. This episode was long investigated by UK Intelligence and no decisions adverse to the writer were made.

Again. the discussion about if Fink-Nottle’s creator was just naive, living in Southern France after the Nazis took over or actually condoned German tendencies of the time got resurrected when the Dean of Westminster Abbey decided to honour him.

CRWW

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Thanks for the in depth response
Is it silver or pewter in your opinion?

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Christopher, you are a poet of silver!