A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

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A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

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Hello All,
I found this beautiful piece at a surgeon's estate sale who used to travel the world in his spare time. My wife and I have researched it for several hours on this website and others but cannot find anything similar to it. I think it's a fish server, lasagna server or maybe even for desserts.

It is 13" long, 8.8 ounces and has a butterfly with leaf design on the front. The back is marked in Old English with "K", "B", "&", "K" and "S". The back also has a large "S" in a leafy design. It has what might be light hammer marks from when it was crafted but I could be wrong, it might just be from being polished. I am assuming it is silverplated since it doesn't say 925 or have a lion symbol.

We would love to know it's origins and how old it is. We've had fun pouring over thousands of pictures looking for a similar one but now it's time for help.

Any help provided by this community would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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Re: A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

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Hi ~ Welcome to the forums. Your piece is a crumb knife/scoop/gatherer, sometimes also called a crumber - silverplate, late 19th-early 20th century, and almost certainly English.

~Cheryl
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Re: A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

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Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

It's 'H B & H', Harrison Brothers & Howson of Sheffield.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_H.html

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Re: A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

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Thought it looked familiar, but my eyes are getting so bad, just couldn't quite make it out...

~Cheryl
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Re: A silver fish server? Marked K B & K S. Help please!

Post by likesnewsocks »

Cheryl and Trev., Thank you so much for your help. It's no wonder why I couldn't find anything about this piece while searching the "K" catagories.
Thanks again!
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