I’m told these may have been used at GGrandmothers marriage ca 1905.
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To me they have a nice shape about them 
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What do you suppose they used them for at the wedding? Perhaps cake knives?
A subsidiary of The Illinois Watchcase Company founded in 1889 by Eppenstein Brothers Company (became a division of Illinois Watch Case Company before 1943). Manufacturer of match boxes, vanity sets, photo and cigarette cases, belt buckles, cuff links, traveling clocks, photo lockets, knifes and other novelties
ELGIN SILVERSMITHS CO INC - New York
Operated as
“Elgin Silver Company” on the second silver plated brass knife blade has the virtue of being slightly less misleading than the oxymoron " Sterling Plate" on the first!
Plated silver is never sterling but a few microns of pure silver electro-plated onto brass or sometimes copper over brass.
I wonder if a large cutlass was used to cut the cake and these were handed out to the guests? If so it may have been a military wedding, perhaps a marine or naval wedding as they used cutlass.
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