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Hi, have this butter knife with no words that say or don't say sterling and an unusual (for me) set of hallmarks that start with what appers to be a rooster then initials T & Wand then something that I can't recogize.


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It's a mid-19th century American coin silver piece by Tifft & Whiting.

~Cheryl

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Hello

Yours knife is in European cutlery set addition a service knife for cheese e.g. soft cheese; butter server has a blade with circular rounded "point".

In yours case - it's seldom - the blade is in silver too.

In Europe these servers most times have a steel blade - sometimes decorative etched - nickel plated and gilded (but the last production process is made only by clients order). The echted ones most times used for presents - the etching isn't very functional for a server indeed!

In France and German factories who produced for French oriented clients the blades were made from an alloy called "Stahlbronze" (Steel bronze = it wasn't steel but a stiff alloy). These blades were polished as like to be golden.

In my «lift up» as a cutlery collector I've got a spoon with same makers mark but couldn't get any clues - French never! English? American marks I haden't seen. Now I've got solved my more then 20 years old question.

Thank you «dragonflywink» for this solution; and «elenasdisc» for to have placed the question!

Kind regards silverport
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