2024-09-25T09:43:00Z
I bought a Silver? fruit tray today at an Op shop in the hope that it may be Sterling or similar because the marks looked like silver marks. I may be wrong but in any case I would be happy if someone could identify. The mark in the middle is a fleur De Lis but I do not know what the litt
There is no British sterling silver mark, of any date, that contains a fleur-de-lis (the York assay office used a mark that included half of a fleur-de-lis, but it didn’t look anything like this one, and was also used only before 1700). So your tray is almost certainly silverplate.
I realized that after I posted - As it has a British registry design number, that would mean it was made somewhere in Great Britian and then should have a British hallmark. Done my dough - no matter it went to a good charity - only $18.
thank you
cam
There is no design registration mark there. The mark above the fleur-de-lis is merely a continuation of what is below and the rubbed mark on the right is a triangle. The whole mark has been attributed as an electroplate mark of Thomas White of Sheffield, active 1872 - 1891.
Phil
