This is a Crescent Silverware Manufacturing silver-plated cocktail shaker. Note the marks do not indicate a town, a maker or a time of manufacture which would be expected to appear if it was sterling made in China. Instead it shows the three Crescent marks: the dragon followed by a C and then a picture of a cock tail.
Crescent Silverware Mfg. Co., Inc., was founded in New York City in 1922 and moved to Port Jervis, New York, in 1939. The company specialized in silver-plated hollow ware, chrome-plated items, and pewter. The company ceased operations after it was bought by Samuel Kirk & Son, but its products remain popular in the vintage market.
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Thank you for the info. Im curious about your thoughts on this response i got from gemini (its like chat gpt)
That’s hilarious! An object lesson - take everything coming from AI with many, many grains of salt. It’s almost hallucinatory.
Here’s the mark:
And a link to the source (scroll down a bit):
From pedestrian NY silverplate to exotic Chinese export silver, in one bizarre excursion. 
When a machine uses the vertical pronoun “I” to substantiate its position, you have a hint it’s going to BS you.
In this case Gemini doesn’t seem to know its cock from its phoenix. Indicating it probably doesn’t have either. ( Phoenix, you will recall, rose from the ashes – which was rather hard on tailfeathers)
Remember what was happening in New York in 1921 when this company started? Yes, that’s right, the introduction of prohibition, the handing over of the production of beer and spirits in the US to us guys in Canada ( Mssrs Gooderham and Worts thank you) and Al Capone.
Cocktail shakers, indeed the introduction of cocktails — as drinks not feather in the backside of male farm bird — were part of the response to make some fairly appalling alcohol drinkable by adding ice, sugar. and fruit to it. The Brits has done the same thing when my Tanqueray ancestors took a break from making silver and pushing religion in Norfolk and introduced Ginever – a medical concoction of grain alcohol whose only good quality is it was not then taxed – and Mr Pimms came up with his sugary, spice drink made of it, still popular today.
The thing about AI is it is not artificial, it is entirely human-brain created, and it is not intelligence. It is simply the regurgitation of received wisdom and, since it is entirely reliant upon the internet as source, a very thin slice of received wisdom.
If you want to read something with intelligence in it try leafing through the 9th-century book Kitāb al-Jabr waʾl-Muqābala written by Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī. This work laid the foundation for the field for problem creating and solving mathematics, with the English word “algebra” deriving from the title of his treatise.
You can use exactly the same approach to resolution of any matter which can be reduced to numerics and letters including who made your fine cocktail shaker and why, in the time of prohibition, making something which was really just a butter churn for booze seem oriental and therefore exotic was good marketing.
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