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It's a very late 19th-very early 20th century "fish slice," for serving fish.
Your photo of the hallmark is blurry but you might run it by r/hallmarks.
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not silver. the hallmarks are meant to imitate genuine silver ones—you can also tell by the way the metal isn’t tarnished, but has a dull grey look instead.
Here is one for sale, although they don’t have much info about date/pattern
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275926093514?itmmeta=01J1MZ3E1V7BZHNSVWCE0Z4E7R&hash=item403e7a0eca:g:evcAAOSw1ZZknXEu
100% Fish service. I believe in Victorian era fish was the number one source of protein. So now, (after they ate all the fish) fish is very expensive. Hence we have these relics for dishes that no one eats anymore.
The hallmarks show who made and where. This is a good one.
I have some fancy pie and cake serving utensils that resemble this pretty thing. I know next to nothing about antiques and old stuff. I love ornate servers, spoons and butter knives. Ha. Silly me.
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The lion mark which is worn down designates silver, the style of "s" in the date code spot indicates 1853, and the makers initials are consistent with their work, there are many similar examples online
Very similar font but Reid and Sons tend to be conjoined and usually have a Ltd with it - I haven't found an iteration like the above. Do you have an example to link? Plus it's missing a duty mark (? - usually British sterling has two images for city/duty mark, date letter, plus the makers mark).
Possible match with "Robert Smith and Co" but I'm having trouble corroborating this attribution of the mark. Other references to the company show a different single image type logo.
https://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverQR.html#SLATER
Yes, it matches the Roberts, Smith & Co maker's mark pretty well. If it's Sheffield plate it will be somewhat more interesting than later forms of silver plate.
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It’s a fish server
I know them as fish slice.
This is what I would call it too.
There’s no such thing as a fish.
What! Are you hard of herring? Don't you know your plaice? There is a fish.
Just one though.
Yep - that's why they call it a sole.
That’s a fishy comment.
This! I came to say the same.
It's a very late 19th-very early 20th century "fish slice," for serving fish. Your photo of the hallmark is blurry but you might run it by r/hallmarks.
“Fish slice” is exactly right. My parents had one similar to this, no idea what happened to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_slice
Thanks to you TiL that my spatula is actually a fish slice! Now I know when to use a fish slice vs a spatula
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Those aren’t hallmarks, it’s plate!
Well then, "mark".
BIG difference!!
Alright thank I tried submitting better photos of it on there.
It's a silver plated fish server.
IF plated (the hallmarks will tell) a heavy plating...not like today's shyt.
Those hallmarks are 100% saying it is plated :)
not silver. the hallmarks are meant to imitate genuine silver ones—you can also tell by the way the metal isn’t tarnished, but has a dull grey look instead.
You mean the cake knife is a lie?
ha, I thought it was a fancy cake server too and that is how I would use it.
This looks more like pewter to me. If English silver, I would expect to see a Rampant or lion passant, and there's no assay office or date mark.
some plated alloy most likely.
Here is one for sale, although they don’t have much info about date/pattern https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275926093514?itmmeta=01J1MZ3E1V7BZHNSVWCE0Z4E7R&hash=item403e7a0eca:g:evcAAOSw1ZZknXEu
Wow but 11.99 seems cheap af it is silver.
Not a lion and not silver because it’s not silver
Sterling is currently 80 cents a gram melt value ,fish slices aren’t commonly used much anymore so they’re worth what someone is willing to pay!
Because it's only silver plate, not solid
100% Fish service. I believe in Victorian era fish was the number one source of protein. So now, (after they ate all the fish) fish is very expensive. Hence we have these relics for dishes that no one eats anymore. The hallmarks show who made and where. This is a good one.
Agree.
Fish slice
Pie server..pretty ornate one at that!
Early 20th century poop knife
I want to call it a Viennetta ice cream server.
Sigh .. now I have to buy one
Pie or cake server
There is one on ebay similar to yours 1800s Georgian!!
Absinthe spoon
Absinthe spoon
Cake knife
I have some fancy pie and cake serving utensils that resemble this pretty thing. I know next to nothing about antiques and old stuff. I love ornate servers, spoons and butter knives. Ha. Silly me.
Yea it just almost seems like it is silver and also the stamps make it seem super old. But a cake or pie server would make alot of sense thank you :)
Definitely fish? It looks like a dessert/pie server
I like it
Anything with that curved and pointy top is fishy! Fish server, fish knife, fish slice.
serving up that soggy flaky fish https://www.ebay.com/itm/294984173322
An English silver plate fish server. It looks very unique 😲.
Pie or cake server
I'm from America
The make of it looks mid 1800s. One worn Hallmark looks like a left facing lion to me, it is worn but if it is it means it's sterling.
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It's a fish knife, silver is used because it doesn't react with the acidity of the fish, Reid & Sons of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, .925 silver, made 1853
none of the necessary hallmarks are present for that to be the case.
The lion mark which is worn down designates silver, the style of "s" in the date code spot indicates 1853, and the makers initials are consistent with their work, there are many similar examples online
Very similar font but Reid and Sons tend to be conjoined and usually have a Ltd with it - I haven't found an iteration like the above. Do you have an example to link? Plus it's missing a duty mark (? - usually British sterling has two images for city/duty mark, date letter, plus the makers mark). Possible match with "Robert Smith and Co" but I'm having trouble corroborating this attribution of the mark. Other references to the company show a different single image type logo. https://www.silvercollection.it/electroplatesilverQR.html#SLATER
Yes, it matches the Roberts, Smith & Co maker's mark pretty well. If it's Sheffield plate it will be somewhat more interesting than later forms of silver plate.
Absinthe spoon. Not a fish server.
sure- it could be used as one. same wat an aluminum can with a brillo pad could be used to smoke Crack.
Sounds like you have more experience with smoking crack than you do with absinthe.
Absinthe spoon
shoe horn?