Butter Knives - please can you help with ID?
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:46 am
Hello, I am a new poster with little idea of what it is I am discussing. I do hope that you can assist me!
I have a set of 6 butter knives that I love and have owned for many years. I now wish to identify them. I have examined the hallmarks and see no indication if a sterling mark, so am posting here in the ssumption that they are plated.
None of the marks look recognisable to me as British silver marks. There is a mark that I assume to be the maker's mark and this I think reads ISG in a wide shield-type design. All marks appear to be alphabetic and Gothic in style. I think I discern an N and an S at the end, and a D before the maker's mark in the centre. The first mark is heavily decorated and I can't fathom which letter it is.
The handles are a beautiful pearlised blue, quite light in weight. They are a soft material as they exhibit scratch marks. They appear grained. Can they be wood? They are warm when I touch them to my lips, not cold like plastic.
The box is a skin effect, lined in brown velvet and a dark cream fabric that I cannot determine to be either man made or natural. It doesn't appear to be silk. No maker's details. I don't know if this is the original box, I bought this item at a fleamarket.
In short, I have no real clues as to country of manufacture nor of age in order to point me to a sensible line of research regarding the marks. I do hope that somebody here can help me by recognising these marks, despite my cack-handed attempt at close-up photography.
Please let me know if a further attempt at a better shot of the marks is needed. I shall be happy to give it a go!
Thank you.
I have a set of 6 butter knives that I love and have owned for many years. I now wish to identify them. I have examined the hallmarks and see no indication if a sterling mark, so am posting here in the ssumption that they are plated.
None of the marks look recognisable to me as British silver marks. There is a mark that I assume to be the maker's mark and this I think reads ISG in a wide shield-type design. All marks appear to be alphabetic and Gothic in style. I think I discern an N and an S at the end, and a D before the maker's mark in the centre. The first mark is heavily decorated and I can't fathom which letter it is.
The handles are a beautiful pearlised blue, quite light in weight. They are a soft material as they exhibit scratch marks. They appear grained. Can they be wood? They are warm when I touch them to my lips, not cold like plastic.
The box is a skin effect, lined in brown velvet and a dark cream fabric that I cannot determine to be either man made or natural. It doesn't appear to be silk. No maker's details. I don't know if this is the original box, I bought this item at a fleamarket.
In short, I have no real clues as to country of manufacture nor of age in order to point me to a sensible line of research regarding the marks. I do hope that somebody here can help me by recognising these marks, despite my cack-handed attempt at close-up photography.
Please let me know if a further attempt at a better shot of the marks is needed. I shall be happy to give it a go!
Thank you.