Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip fitted into pewter (?) bolster. Blade and tang are one piece of steel inserted into black wooden handle with rounded sides and butt. Nickel silver ferrule is decorated with low-relief band of six-petaled flowers. Tang is held in place with single steel pin through side. Blade is scratched, minor corrosion. Bolster is scratched and nicked. Small chip in handle near pin.
Blade is etched: “E. FELSENHELD,/MAKER/NEW YORK.”
Maker is E. Felsenheld, New York, New York/Germany, a manufacturer and importer active circa 1900-1920.
Elongated octagonal piercework salt with a clear, cobalt blue glass liner. Underside of flat, inset bottom is engraved "DMFC" in conjoined script below six marks struck across center, "MADE IN ENGLAND" in incuse sans serif letters above a set of five marks for the Potosi Silver Co., "P", "S", "C\o." and "EP" (sideways), all in individual squares, and a standing spreadwing bird in shield. One of two salts, 1977.0918.04-.05.
Maker is Potosi Silver Co., a subsidiary firm of Levi & Salaman of Birmingham, England.
Early balloon style whisk or beater, with "archimedes" up-and-down mechanism. Long wooden handle, painted black, with circular metal eyelet at end for hanging. Twisted metal shaft with encased coil spring which allows for circular mixing motion when handle is turned. Bulb-shaped mixing end, comprised of four thin bent strips of metal, with four rounded projections at bottom of bulb. Handle is stamped: "MADE IN U.S.A./ PAT'D", with the A&J Manufacturing company logo/trademark stamped to the right: "A&J". The A&J trademark stamp is the 1922 version, which was modified in 1932. The company was purchased by the EKCO Housewares Company in 1929.
Maker is A&J Manufacturing Company of Birmingham, New York.
Thin, rectangular case with spring-loaded, hinged lid featuring a bright-cut engraved, triple-loop bowknot with leaves springing out above and vertical, engine-turned bands below; plain, angled sides and flat back. Rectangular push-tab catch. Gold washed, engine-turned interior has one T-shaped spring retainer. Outer inside edges of lid and back as well as retainer obverse are all struck incuse "STERLING SILVER" in sans serif letters. No other marks.
Shallow, circular dish or bowl made from one piece with an irregular, rolled rim and uneven well; no foot. Pierced with one hole at side of well. Bottom underside struck incuse "E.G. WEBSTER & SON / 97" in sans serif letters. Reddish finish.
Maker is E. G. Webster & Son of Brooklyn, NY, 1886-1928. Named for Elizur Goodwin Webster (1829-1900) and his son, Frederick Hezekiah Webster (b. 1860); successor firm to E. G. Webster & Brother (Elizur and Adelbert Ashley Webster) of New York, NY, 1865-1886, also known as Webster Manufacturing Co., 1866-1874. E. G. Webster & Son was purchased by International Silver Co. in 1928, but the trademark was used until c. 1961 when the line was consolidated with Wilcox Silver Plate Co. (a founding member of Insilco in 1898) into Webster-Wilcox.
Bulging, circular body with plain rim, flat bottom and open-ended, tapered tubular handle fitted over and double-riveted through an integrally cast extension; white enameled interior. Hollow cast with seam around middle and single gate mark at center of bottom underside; cast-in marks "MARIETTA PA / M [H & E C\o]" and "8 QTS" in incuse sans serif letters at perimeter on underside and "EJ(?)" in raised letters to left of handle. Low-domed cover has an arched strap handle and two beads or fillets; soft-soldered construction.
Large, bulging, circular body with plain rim, flat bottom and open-ended, tapered tubular handle fitted over and double-riveted through an integrally cast extension; white enameled interior. Hollow cast with seam around middle and single gate mark at center of bottom underside; cast-in marks "MARIETTA C Co" and "10 QT'" in incuse sans serif letters at perimeter on underside and the raised number "5" to left of handle. Flat-domed cover with two rivets for handle; soft-soldered construction.
Oval salt dish with a cylindrical, scalloped-rim, clear, dark cobalt blue glass insert or liner resting in a seamed, bead-and-cable-patterned holder on four leaf-and-scroll feet with cast and stamped female masks supported by griffin-like creatures for frame. No marks.